Their Writing Achievement A Correlational Study at the Seventh Semester Students of Department of English Education Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic
University of Jakarta in Academic Year 20162017.
B. Identification of the Problems
1. Students have difficulties in choosing suitable word to put in their writing because they have limited stock of vocabulary.
2. Students have difficulties in putting messages or ideas in written language because of their lack of vocabulary.
3. It is supposed that students have low writing achievement because of lack of vocabulary.
C. Limitation of the Problem
The writer limited the study on relationship between students’ vocabulary
mastery and their writing achievement which was conducted at the seventh semester students of Department of English Education of Syarif Hidayatullah
State Islamic University of Jakarta in academic year 20162017.
D. Formulation of the Problem
Based on the background and limitation above, the writer formulated the research question as
“Is there any relationship between vocabulary mastery and writing achievement at the seventh semester students of Department of English
Education of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta ?”
E. Objective of the Study
This study intended to know and describe relationship between students’
vocabulary mastery and their writing achievement at the seventh semester students of Department of English Education of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic
University of Jakarta.
F. Significance of the Study
The result of this study is expected to give some significances not only theoretically but also practically.
1. For students, this study will encourage to learn vocabulary more in order to improve their writing achievement.
2. For teachers, the result of this study can be useful as a reflection that it is important to help students develop their vocabulary mastery in order to
improve their writing achievement as well. 3. For future researchers, the result of this study hopefully can be useful as
reference for them whenever they are interested in conducting a study with similar variables.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
