THE CORRELATION BETWEEN WRITING LEARNING STRATEGIES AND WRITING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE FIFTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM IN UNIVERSITAS BENGKULU

Abstract: This research is aimed at identifying writing kearning
strategy used and students’s writing achievement. Then, the research
would like to find out whether or not there is any significant
correlation between writing learning strategies and writing
achievement at the fifth-semester students of English Education Study
Program at Universitas Bengkulu. The research was designed as a
quantitative correlation method. The population of the research was 79
students of English Education Study Program at Universitas Bengkulu
Academic Year 2018/2019. The purposive samples were 69 students,
taken from the population, meawhile 10 students was taken as tryout
sample. The alternative hypothesis: There is any correlation between
writing learning strategy and writing achievement. The instrument
used for collecting the data were writing learning strategies
questionnaire and writing test. The collected data were analyzed by
Pearson Product Moment Formula using Statistical Package for Social
Sciences (SPSS) software version 16. The result of this research
revealed that there is a correlation between writing learning strategies
and writing achievement because the correlation coefficient is 0.357 in
weak correlation categorized. It is concluded that it is needed to
strengh student’s achievement through train and introduce writing
learning strategies deeply.
Keywords: Correlation, Writing Learning Strategies, Writing
Achievement