conjunction, prepositions, pronouns and articles can be used descriptively, but it is adjectives that have describing as their key function.
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It means that adjective is very important in writing descriptive text.
Raimes states that writing reinforces the use of aspects of language skills including structure, idiom, and vocabulary that we have studied.
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It means that when students write, they need correct sentences. Particularly in writing a paragraph or text, they
have to arrange the use of the paragraph or text correctly. They often use adjective in their writing to describe something. Therefore, if someone is able to write good
sentences, it means that he or she is expected to be able to write good paragraph too, and in using adjective they can express their ideas, moods, feelings, and thoughts.
Based on the statement above, the writer therefore assumes that if the students have good grammar skill specifically in using adjective, they will be able to write a
paragraph or text descriptive appropriately.
M. The Hypothesis
Based on the frame of thinking above, the writer proposes the hypotheses as follows: Ho:
There is no significant correlation between students’ mastery in using adjective and their ability in writing descriptive text.
Ha: There is a
significant correlation between students’ mastery in using adjective and their ability in writing descriptive text.
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Peter Knapp and Megan Watkins, Genre, Text, Grammar Technologies for Teaching and Assessing Writing, Sydney: University of New South Wales, 2005, p. 110
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Ann Raimes, Technique in Teaching Writing, New York: Oxford University Press, 1983
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Design
In this research, the writer used correlation research design. According to Kothari, correlation research studies the joint variation of two or more variables for
determining the amount of correlation between two or more variables.
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Moreover, according to Kaufman, in correlation research, the goal is to determine whether two
or more variables are related.
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In this research, the writer associated two variables: students’ mastery in using adjective and their ability in writing descriptive text.
According to Ary, correlation research employs data derived from preexisting
variables. There is no manipulation, and the data are taken from single group.
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In this research, the writer analyzed the data taken from the s
tudents’ test. The writer scored both their in using adjective and their writing ability by using writing test. After
getting the score, the writer analyzed the data to know whether there is correlation of the variables.
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C.R Kothari, Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques, New Delhi: New Age,2004,p.130.
2
Geoffrey Marczyk, et al. Essential of Research Design and Methodology, New Jersey: John Wiley Sons, Inc.,2005,p.3.
3
Donald Ary, et al., Introduction to Research in Education, 8
th
ed Wadsworth, Belmont, 2010,p.349.
