THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY AND WRITING DESCRIPTIVE

dr. m. farkhan, m. pd.;

ANDI HADI WIJAYA. NIM: 0901067001. The Relationship Between Eight
Grade Students’ Vocabulary and Writing Descriptive Paragraph At SMP Darul
Ma’arif Jakarta. A Paper. Jakarta: The English Language Teaching Programme,
The Departement of Language and Arts Education, The School of Teacher
Training and Educations, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA,
2013.
The objective of this research was to get the empirical evidence for
answering problem the research whether or not there is a significance relationship
between eight grade students‘ vocabulary and writing descriptive paragraph at
SMP Darul Ma‘arif Jakarta. The independent variable (X) in this research is
Vocabulary; meanwhile the dependent variable (Y) is Writing Descriptive
Paragraph.
The research used descriptive quantitative method. The population of this
research consist 130 students and the sample of the research was taken 20% from
the population, consists of 25 students whom have selected randomly.To obtain
data X variable (Vocabulary), the writer used questionnaire consisting of 25 items
and to obtain data of Y variable (Writing Descriptive Paragraph), the writer used
writing test consisting of Descriptive paragraph.
The result of the analysis shows that the data of the two variables have
normal distribution using Liliefors test. The result of normality of the data
distribution (X) Lo = 2.9823 is smaller than Lt = 6.87 . In scattered diagram, it
can be seen that the score has the straight line and linear. From the data analysis, it
is known the result of r- observe = 0.90 is bigger than r- table = 0.381 . as ro > rt,
it can be said that Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. So, there is a significant
relationship between eighth grade students‘ vocabulary and writing descriptive
paragraph at SMP Darul Ma‘arif Jakarta.
Practically through this study the writer hoped that her research will be
useful for those who concerned with English teaching especially in vocabulary
and writing descriptive paragraph. It can become input to all English teaching, to
develop better ways of English teaching programme.