THE CORRELATION BETWEEN

VOCABULARY MASTERY AND

WRITING STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT FOR THE EIGTH
GRADE IN SMP NEGERI 2
LUBUKLINGGAU
Advisor :
Ayu Oktaviani,S.Pd M.A

Proposed by :
Maharani Robiatul Islam

BACKGROUND OF THE RESEARCH

The researcher is interested to do the research because the

researcher believe that if the student has had many
vocabulary and the student has mastered vocabulary
before the student write and develop the ideas from word
into sentence and from the sentence into paragraph. It will
help the student is easier to make good sentences clearly
in english especially in writing.

FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM

Is there any significant correlation

between vocabulary mastery and writing
student achievement for the eight grade
in SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau ?

OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH

The objective of this research is to find out

wheather or not there is a significant correlation
between vocabulary mastery and writing student
achievement at SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau.

DELIMITATION OF THE RESEARCH

Correlation between vocabulary and writing student

achievement at SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau

The subject of this research reffered to the eight

grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Lubuklinggau

The material of writing investigate in this

research is Descriptive Text

SIGNIFICANCES OF THE RESEARCH

For the teachers

The teachers can get an understanding.

The teachers give information.
For the students

The students can write well in english.

The students have motivate to study writing more seriously in terms
of increasing their writing achievement.
For the researcher

The researcher herself will increase her knowledge.

The researcher get experiences from this research.
The reseacher can have better understanding from this research .

DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS

The Correlation

Correlation
Correlation is
is to
to discover
discover relationship
relationship between
between two
two or
or more
more variables
variables

Writing

Writing
Writing
Writing is
is one
one of
of language
language skills
skills that
that use
use our
our brain,
brain, skill
skill to
to explore
explore the
the
ideas
in
our
mind
and
to
describe
what
we
want
to
write
by
using
word
ideas in our mind and to describe what we want to write by using word
Vocabulary

Vocabulary
Vocabulary is
is one
one of
of the
the language
language aspects
aspects which
which should
should be
be learn.
learn. In
In
learning
vocabulary
automatically
we
have
to
know
the
meaning
of
word
learning vocabulary automatically we have to know the meaning of word
itself
itself and
and it
it can
can use
use in
in sentences
sentences

RESEARCH DESIGN

The suitable design for this research

is descriptive quantitative study.

RESEARCH VARIABLES

Vocabulary Mastery
Independent
Variable

Writing Student
achievement
Dependent
Variable

RESEARCH INSTRUMENT

There are several instruments that can be used by

researcher, but the researcher choose one instrument. The
instrument is test. The tests are test of vocabulary mastery
and writing achievement.

POPULATION AND SAMPLE

POPULATION
NO

CLASSES

NUMBER OF THE STUDENTS

VIII.1

30

VIII.2

30

VIII.3

28

VIII.4

32

VIII.5

30

VIII.6

30

VIII.7

28

VIII.8

29

VIII.9

30

10

VIII.10

30

TOTAL

297

SAMPLE

The researcher takes one of the

classes VIII.2 as the sample
which consist of 30 students.