Septiana, . (2018) An Undergraduate Thesis The Correlation Between Extrinsic Motivation and The Students’ Descriptive Writing Ability at The Seventh Grade of Mts Ma’arif NU 5 Sekampung. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Writing is one of four skills that should be mastered by students in learning English. In writing there are several kinds of text such as narrative, descriptive, argumentative, and persuasive. Descriptive text is one of text which has to be mastered by the seventh grade students of the Junior High School. But, there are some problems that faced by the seventh grade students of MTs Ma’arif NU 5 Sekampung in writing descriptive text. In this research, it focus on the students have low motivation in descriptive writing. Therefore, the writer conducted this research in order to know whatever related the students to get the good score.This research was aimed at detecting the correlation between extrinsic motivation (X) and the students’ descriptive writing ability (Y) at the seventh grade of MTs Ma’arif NU 5 Sekampung.

This research is quantitative research. The population of this research was the seventh grade students. A sample of 29 students is established through the purposive sampling technique. The instruments that used in this research are test, that consist of making a descriptive paragraph essay and questionnaire. To analyze the data, the writer used the formulation of Correlation product moment.

The result of this reseacrh shows that Degree of freedom (DF) of this research is 27, the value of correlation product moment was 0,518 and the level of correlation between extrinsic motivation and students’ descriptive writing ability is 26,83%. Then, the data confirmed that “robserved” = 0,518 is higher than “rtable” = 0,381 in 5% and 0,487 in 1%. Therefore, it can be inferred that alternatif hyphothesis (Ha) is accepted there is a positive an sifnificant correlation between extrinsic motivation and the students’ descriptive writing ability at the seventh grade of MTs Ma’arif NU 5 Sekampung.

Keywords:Descriptive Writing, Extrinsic Motivation, Writing Ability

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