CHAPTER IV RESULT OF STUDY
4.1 The Result of Correlation between Students’ Reading and Writing
After getting the students’ scores of reading comprehension on recount text and the score of writing of the same text, the writer statistically analyzed the data to
find out the correlation between those two variables. In this research, she measured the correlation between the students’
achievement on reading recount text and their writing of the same text of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 24 Semarang, in the academic year of
20082009. To correlate those two variables, she applied the Pearson Product Moment Formula by using the following steps:
Step 1 : Find out scores of reading and writing and enter in column X and Y Step 2 : square the score and enter in column X
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and Y
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Step 3 : multiply the score of reading and writing and enter in column XY Step 4 : sum up each column
Step 5 : apply the Pearson Product Moment Formula to find out the correlation between students’ reading and writing.
After she finished the correlation analysis calculation, she found out that the correlation coefficient of the two variables was 0.519. Then to know whether
this correlation was significant or not, it is necessary to find out its significance. The rejection or acceptance of the Null hypothesis Ho is based on the
level of significance. In Psychological or educational research, the 5 alpha of
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significance is occasionally used as standard of acceptance of the Null hypothesis and it is also used as a standard for rejection 5 level of significance to judge
the correlation between the two variables above. The level of significance gained in this investigation was 0.519; whereas
the figure on the table of critical value of ‘r’ Product Moment with 95 confidence level and the number of subject 38 is 0.320. It means the correlation
coefficient between the students’ achievement on reading recount text and their writing of the same text was significant because R
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or in other words, the null hypothesis Ho which explained that there was no significant correlation was
rejected, while the working hypothesis Hi which explained that there was a significance correlation was accepted.
The following chapter presents conclusion and suggestions as the result of the study.
4.2 Students’ Reading Comprehension Test
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