A CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS’ TO COMPREHEND AND TO WRITE A NEWS ITEM TEXT AT SMA N 1 RAMBAH ROKAN HULU RIAU

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Abstract

The aim of this research is to correlate the first year students’ ability to comprehend and to write a news item text at SMAN 1 Rambah Rokan Hulu Riau. The design of this research was correlation research. Total number of population was 294 students. In this research the researcher used cluster random sampling technique to establish the sample. The researcher took class B as sample with total members 30 students. The researcher used two kind of instruments; reading test and writing test. The researcher did try out for the test because the test is nonstandard test. The tests were valid in term of content validity and the tests were reliable and categorized high correlation. The research result showed that there was a significant correlation between the first year students’ to comprehend and to write a news item text at SMA N 1 Rambah Rokan Hulu Riau was categorized as high correlation. It was proved by the value of r- counted (.80) which was bigger than r- table (.36), at the level of significance 95%, with α =0,05 and degree of freedom (df) n-2 . Based on the result above, it suggested to teacher and students. The teacher leads the students to comprehend before writing a news item text,the teacher should consider of generic structure of news item text and pay attention to the studentscomprehend in news item text. To the students  they should make efforts to increase their ability in reading, if they have more information from reading they can make good text in writing.

Key words; Correlation, Reading, Writing, News Item Text