A Correlational Study Between Students’ Achievements in Grammar III and Their Achievements in Writing II (A Study at D 3 English Program)

Writing is one of important and communicative skills, but raster difficult to
develop. The difficulties can be about grammatical and structure. However, they have
learnt about this for three semester. In short, the students can show their ability in
writing better if they can arrange good sentences or good grammar. The problems in
this research were: how are the students’ achievements in Grammar III?, how are the
students’ achievements in Writing II?, are there any significant correlation between
students’ achievements in Grammar III and their achievements in Writing II?. The
objectives of this research were: to know the students’ achievements in Grammar III,
to know the students’ achievements in Writing II, to find out the correlation between
students’ achievements in Grammar III and their achievements in Writing II. The
result of this research is expected: the lecturers can give the marks of the students
objectively to improve the education quality in English program Universitas
Bengkulu especially in Grammar III and Writing II Subjects, can give some
contributions in the development of teaching and learning process, especially in
writing and grammar, especially for English department of UNIB can provide more
time in learning Grammar and Writing subjects, because both subjects are closely
related. This research was correlation study and the research was purposed to find the
correlation between Grammar III and Writing II. The subject of this research was the
student of D3 English Department of UNIB, who had taken Grammar III and Writing
II subjects. The method used to take the subject of the research was total sampling.
From the results of the research, it was found that the calculated –r between students’
achievements in Grammar III and those in Writing II, in the academic year 2005 was
0.84. This value was matched with the value of the critical –r found in the statistical
table as equal to 0.330 on 1 level % of significance. Therefore, research hypothesis
was accepted. There was a positive correlation between students’ achievements in
Grammar III and those in Writing II. The strength of correlation between students’
achievements in Grammar III and those in Writing II in the academic year 2005 was
0.84 and was classified as high. From the analysis of the data during the study, the
following conclusions could be forwarded: the students’ achievements in Grammar
III in academic year 2005 was good, the students’ achievements in Writing II in
academic year 2005 was good, and there was a highly positive significant correlation
between students’ achievements in Grammar III and their achievements in Writing II.