THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COHESION MASTERY AND NARRATIVE ESSAY WRITING AT THE FIFTH SEMESTER ENGLISH STUDENTS OF HAMKA UNIVERSITY IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

tasya dilahaya fitri; martriwati, m. pd.; roihatul millah, m. pd.;

BUDI SETIAWAN. NIM: 1001065038. The Relationship Between Cohesion Mastery and Narrative Essay Writing at the Fifth Semester English Students of HAMKA University in the 2013/2014 Academic Year. Paper; Jakarta, English Language Teaching Programme. The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2014.
The aim of this research was to find the empirical evidence of whether or not there is any relationship between cohesion mastery and narrative essay writing at the fifth semester English students of HAMKA University 2013/2014. This research was conducted at University of Prof.Dr. HAMKA. The respondents of the research were the fifth semester English Department, especially 5E class. The total of the respondents was 25 students. The writer used purposive sampling technique in deciding the sample.
The writer took the data by using test instruments and the method applied in this research was descriptive quantitative method. The instruments of the research were cohesion test and writing test. To calculate the correlation of variable X (cohesion mastery) and variable Y (writing skill), the writer used Pearson’s Product Moment.
After analyzing the data, it was found the result of correlation analysis shows that there is a significant relationship between cohesion mastery and narrative essay writing at the fifth semester English Department of HAMKA University which robserve was 0.557 and rtable was 0.381in the significant level is 0.05. Thus, the significant analysis show that tobserve > ttable (to = 3.16 and tt = 1.17). The empirical contribution can be described = 49.5 + 0.41X. Finally, the writer hopes the result of this study will be used for the English lecturers in the future and for the readers who read this paper.