THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ WRITING MOTIVATION AND THEIR WRITING ABILITY AT THE EIGHT GRADE OF ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 3 PEKANBARU

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The purpose of this study is to know whether there is a correlation
between students’ writing motivation and their writing ability at the eighth grade
of State Islamic Junior High School 3 Pekanbaru. From 328 students of the total
population which consisted of nine classes, the researcher took 49 students as the
sample by using simple random sampling. In collecting the data, the researcher
distributed questionnaire to the respondents to assess their writing motivation. The
questionnaire was based on the indicators of writing motivation which were
adopted from Academic Writing Motivation Questinare (AMWQ) by Payne and
translated into Indonesian language. Besides, in assessing students’ writing
ability, this research conducted a written test to the students. In analyzing the data,
the questionnaire was assessed by Likert’s scale rating, and written test was
measured by ESL Composition profile. Pearson Product Moment Correlation
Technique was used in order to measure the correlation between the two variables
which quantified the strength as well as direction of the correlation by using
SPSS.19. The result of this research showed that the students’ writing motivation
was 66.92% while their writing ability was 69.95. In terms of the correlation
between students’ writing motivation and their writing ability, the researcher
found that the coefficient correlation in this research was 0.483; it means that
there is an average correlation between those variables. Based on the research
findings, it could be concluded that there is a significant correlation between
students’ writing motivation and their writing ability at the eighth grade of State
Islamic Junior High School 3 Pekanbaru.

Key Words: Writing Motivation, Writing Ability, Correlation

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