CORRELATION BETWEEN READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE AND ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMAN 2 KAMPAR

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This research design was a correlation design which was causal
relationship. In accordance with the symptoms, the writer has seen some problems
that should be discussed and overcome. In this research, there were three
formulations of the problems: (1) how is students’ reading comprehension of
narrative? (2) how is students’ ability in writing a narrative text? (3) is there any
significant correlation between students’ reading comprehension of narrative and
their ability in writing narrative text? The objectives of the research was only to
find out correlation between reading comprehension of narrative and the ability in
writing narrative at the second year students of SMAN 2 Kampar. The research
was carried out at SMAN 2 Kampar. It was conducted from September to
October, 2011. The subject of the research was the second year students of SMAN
2 Kampar. The population of this research was 187 students and the sample was
31 students. The technique used in taking the sample was random sampling. In
collecting the data, the writer used test for both of the variables in this research.
Before the test of reading comprehension was given to the sample, the researcher
gave a try out. The writer also gave the test of writing a narrative. In analyzing the
data, the scores were analyzed by using Simple Regression Analysis formula by
using SPSS 16.0 version. Based on the research findings, the score of sign. was
0.002 and it was lower than ? (0.002<0.05). It could be concluded that H0 was
rejected and Ha was accepted. The conclusions: There was a significant
correlation between reading comprehension of narrative and ability in writing
narrative at the second year students of SMAN 2 Kampar regency, the students’
reading comprehension was categorized into enough level, and the students’
ability in writing narrative was categorized into enough level too. The percentage
of contribution of reading comprehension to ability in writing narrative was 29%
and the rest 71% was influenced by other factors. Finally, the suggestions: in
teaching writing narrative text, teacher should use many kinds of reading texts
which can provide students with ideas and reading comprehension in order that
the generic structures and generic features of the text can be achieved by students’
reading comprehension, they can prepare themselves to increase their ability in
English lesson especially in writing narrative pharagraphs.

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