A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON LEARNING STRATEGIES AND THEIR GRAMMATICAL MASTERY TOWARD THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH AT THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
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ABSTRACT
The type of this research was correlational study. This research was aimed to find out the correlation between students’ perception on learning strategies and their grammatical mastery toward their ability in writing a descriptive paragraph at the third year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University. The number of population members was 54 students. To choose the sample, the researcher used simple random sampling technique, and the sample of this research was 30 students. She used three instruments to collect the data; questionnaire, grammar test and writing test.
After analyzing the data, the researcher found that students’ perception on learning strategies, their grammartical mastery and their writing ability a descriptive paragraph were moderate. In addition, this study also found that the value of coefficient correlation between students’ perception on learning strategies and their writing ability was 0.68 and r-table was 0.361 (α 0.05 and df = n-2 (28)). The coefficient correlation between students’ grammatical mastery and their writing ability was 0.77 and r-table 0.361 (α 0.05 and df=n-2 (28)). The coefficient correlation between students’ perception on learning strategies, grammatical mastery and writing ability was 0.79 and f-counted was 40.11 and value of f=table was 3.35 (α 0.05 and df= n-k-1 (27)). The correlation among three variables, perception on learning strategies, grammatical mastery and writing ability were significant.
Key words: Correlation, Perception on LS, Grammar and Writing