The Correlation Between Students’ Proficiency In English Vocabulary And Their Ability To Write English Poetry

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This research was aimedto find out the students’proficiency in English vocabulary. It was conducted by quantitative. The data analysis has four steps through; identifying the students’ proficiency of English vocabulary, Scoring students works, collecting the closest of students poetry writing score and put the result into table. It was conducted in one of Junior High School in Hamparan Perak, especially in thirth grade. The data that were achieved from students’ their vocabulary score and poetry writing score were collected and analyzed as objective as possible, so they can be better in writing skill. After analyzed all the text, the finding of the study can be seen in the data. Based on the findings of the data analysis, it has been identified that the score of rxywas 0.607 and the score of dfwas 28. Then, the score rxywas compared with the degree of significance 5% which showed that with the df = 28, the rtablescore which was obtained was 0.361, therefore, rxy>rt. Meanwhile, when the score rxywas compared with the degree of significance 1%, it shows that with the df = 28, rtablescore is 0.463, it showedrxy>rt. Therefore, the score of coefficient correlation of both degree of significance was higher than the score of r table, it shows that alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. In other words, there was a significant correlation between students’ vocabulary proficiency and their poetry writing ability. It means that the more vocabulary they master, the better writing skill they have.

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