CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS HABIT IN WRITING DIARY AND STUDENTS WRITING ACHIEVEMENT THESIS

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1 CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS HABIT IN WRITING DIARY AND STUDENTS WRITING ACHIEVEMENT THESIS This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education By: BAYU CAKRA BUANA ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG FEBRUARY 2015

2 This thesis written by Bayu Cakra Buana was approved on February 5 th, By: Advisor II, Advisor I, Rahmawati Khadijah Maro, S.Pd., M.PEd Bayu Hendro Wicaksono, S.Pd., M.Ed., Ph.D ii

3 This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education on February 5 th, 2015 Approved by: Faculty of Teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Malang Dean, Dr. Poncojari Wahyono, M.Kes Examiners: Signatures: 1. Rinjani Bonavidi, M.Ed, Ph.D Nina Inayati, M.Ed Bayu Hendro Wicaksono, S.Pd., M.Ed, Ph.D Rahmawati Khadijah Maro, S.Pd., M.PEd. 4. iii

4 ORIGINALITY DECLARATION The undersigned: Name : Bayu Cakra Buana Student ID number : Program of Study Faculty : English Department : Faculty of Teacher Training and Education I declare that the work presented in this thesis was carried out by myself and does not incorporate without acknowledgement any material previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any university. To the best of my knowledge this thesis does not contain any materials previously publish or written by another person except where due reference is made in text. Malang, February 5 th, 2015 Bayu Cakra Buana iv

5 MOTTO AND DEDICATION Karena sesungguhnya sesudah kesulitan itu ada kemudahan (QS. Al Insyirah: 5) I dedicated this thesis to: My beloved mother (Eti Tularsih, S.Pd) and father (Jaenudin, S.Pd) My Advisors (Bayu H. Wicaksono, S.Pd., M.Ed., Ph.D and Rahmawati K. Maro, S.Pd., M.PEd.) My lovely sisters (Wulan and Ega) My adored (Ika Oktafani) All of my friends (Penghuni Kos 336, Mbleyer Family, Community of FPP Part-timer, MBC, F 2010, Uli, Reas, Yogik, Atiq, Laila, Defika, Novi and all of you) v

6 CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS HABIT IN WRITING DIARY AND STUDENTS WRITING ACHIEVEMENT ABSTRACT Writing is one of the skills in English that involves students creativity and confidence in expressing the ideas, feelings and thoughts into a written form. Nevertheless, most students are afraid of writing due to the grammatical feature. However, it is believed that students are able to minimize their anxiety by starting to write diary. Thus, in this present study the researcher intended to investigate the correlation between students habit in writing diary and students writing achievement. This study employed correlational research design to meet the objective that is to investigate the correlation between students habit in writing diary and students writing achievement. The target population of this study was students on the second year of SMP N 1 Belik. The sample of this study was students of class VIII A and VIII C which consisted of 76 students. They were cluster randomly selected from 7 classes of the total population of 266 students. In collecting the data, the researcher used document of paper test result and questionnaire lists as the research instrument. In order to understand the correlation, this study applied Pearson Product Moment as the analysis. The result of this study showed that there was a low positive correlation between students habit in writing diary and students writing achievement. The result was strengthened by the calculation of comparison between r-value and r- table. It was found that r-value was and r-table at 0.05 level of significance in the degree of freedom (df = 74) was It claimed that the r-value was higher than r-table. Besides, the result of this study showed that p = and α = It means the p value was lower than α. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (Hi) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. To sum up, the increase of students habit in writing diary score might be followed by the increase of students writing achievement score. Key words: habit in writing diary, writing achievement, correlation. The Advisor I, The Researcher, Bayu H. Wicaksono, S.Pd., M.Ed., Ph.D Bayu Cakra Buana vi

7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In the name of Allah, the most gracious and the most merciful, all praises given to Allah SWT for the uncountable blessing given to the researcher during his study in English Department of UMM and especially in completing this thesis. In this chance, the researcher would like to express his gratitude to his beloved parents: Eti Tularsih, S.Pd and Jaenudin, S.Pd for the endless love, pray as well as support. Their motivation, advice, support, and even anger have been making the researcher to be better person. Let the researcher expresses his great appreciation to Mr. Bayu H. Wicaksono, S.Pd., M.Ed, Ph.D as the first advisor for the excellent advisory that help the researcher to finish this thesis. Besides, the researcher would like to say his gratitude to Miss Rahmawati K. Maro, S.Pd., M.PEd as the second advisor for her superb suggestions during finishing this study. The researcher s admiration is also given to all the lecturers in English Department. Next, the researcher s thanks given to Mr. Kaharudin, S.Pd as the headmaster of SMP N 1 Belik and Mr. Budi Sumantri, S.Pd as the English teacher of the second year at SMP N 1 Belik for allowing the researcher to take data for several days. It is surely disturbing the daily activity there. Without their permission, the researcher may not be able to finish this study. Malang, February 5 th, 2015 Bayu Cakra Buana vii

8 TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE... APPROVAL... LEGALIZATION... ORIGINALITY DECLARATION... MOTTO AND DEDICATION... ABSTRACT... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... TABLE OF CONTENTS... i ii iii iv v vi vii viii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study Statement of the Problem Hypothesis Purpose of the Study Significance of the Study Scope and Limitation Definition of Key Terms... 5 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Teaching English in Junior High School Teaching Writing Writing Skill Principles for Teaching of Writing viii

9 2.3 Diary Type of Diary The Effectiveness of Diary to Improve Writing Skill Related Study CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHOD 3.1 Research Design Data Collection Population and Sample Research Instrument Questionnaire Lists Document (Paper Test Result) Validity and Reliability Procedures of Data Collection Data Analysis CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Research Findings Discussion CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS 5.1 Conclusion Suggestions REFERENCES APPENDIXES ix

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