Ikhda Aenis Syifa, 2201405631 (2009) Students’ Achievement in Reading Recount Text and Its Correlation to Their Writing of the Same Text (A Case study of the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 24 Semarang in the Academic Year of 2008/2009). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

English is one of the international languages which is learned by all students both in Indonesia and other countries. The purpose of learning a foreign language, especially English is for students to be able to use English as their second language and to practice it in their daily conversation. There are four basic skills of language which have to be mastered by each learner, i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Every skill is correlated to each other. However, there is no guarantee that students, who are good in a certain skill, will have the same ability in other skills also. Therefore, this study was conducted to find out whether there is a significant correlation between the students’ achievement in reading and writing. The population of this study was all students of the eighth grade of SMPN 24 Semarang in the academic year of 2008/2009, while the sample used in this study was students of VIII E. The method used for gathering the data was by conducting a test. The test consisted of reading comprehension test and writing test. The scores which were obtained from the try out test was then analyzed using Product Moment Formula to find out the validity and using split half Spearman-Brown formula to find out the test’s reliability. Then, the scores of reading and writing of recount text were re-analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Formula. The result of the computation showed that there was a correlation between students’ achievement in reading recount text and their writing ability of the same text. That correlation was 0.519, which showed that the correlation between the two skills was significant, because for a 5% level of difficulty and number of subject 38, rtable = 0.320, for this study, the correlation (rxy) was bigger than rtable, therefore it was significant. After conducting this study, it can be concluded that from 38 students, there was 2.63% or one student who had a very good ability in reading recount text. However, there were 18.41% students or seven students who were able to write well. Therefore, this can be seen that there is no guarantee that students who are good in reading, will also be good in writing. As a result, teachers need to teach a good model of writing in order to make students able to construct a good and meaningful paragraph. Teachers should also give students some task to read more in their leisure time, so that, they can enhance the students’ vocabulary and able to apply them in their writing.

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