Writing Assignment

CORRELATION BETWEEN ENGLISH GRAMMAR MASTERY AND STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY AMONG THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF STATE ISLAMIC COLLEGE (STAIN) JURAI SIWO METRO

IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2009/2010

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

Background of The Study

Nowadays, English is used as an international language for communication in the world. Wherever we visit the other countries, we will find that the people use English for trading, communication or business.

In Indonesia, English extremely gives significant influence for all aspects of Indonesian, especially in education. English has become a subject that all students should study it. In the development, government also has established English as one of the subject that is examined in UAN. Therefore, teaching English in Indonesia determines the graduates’ future.

In teaching English, there are some skills that must be considered such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Those skills play important role for mastering English, especially writing.

Writing is really related to the grammar mastery. For arranging the words and coherence of the paragraph, grammar mastery gives positive influence for writing ability.

Problem Identification

Learning to write must take a long time. It is harder than learn to speak. Because, learning to write need much vocabulary and grammar mastery. Sometimes, it is hard to begin writing when the students get no inspiration about the theme what they should write. Even bad mood can be he obstacle in writing.

Students actually should get motivation from the teacher so that they can afford much to write something they know. They also must read a lot in order to have material for writing. In addition, the writing strategies they have studied in the college should be applied in writing.

Problem Limitation

For this a great number of problems dealing with writing ability, the writer will only focus on the low English grammar mastery. Therefore, the writer limits the problem only to ‘Correlation between English grammar mastery and writing ability among the fourth semester students of state Islamic college (STAIN) Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2009/2010’.

Problem Formulation

The problem that will be studied in this research is formulated as follow:

What is the level of English grammar mastery among the fourth semester students of state Islamic college (STAIN) Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2009/2010?

What is the level of writing ability among the fourth semester students of state Islamic college (STAIN) Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2009/2010?

Does grammar mastery have correlation with writing ability among the fourth semester students of state Islamic college (STAIN) Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2009/2010?

Objectives and benefits of the study

Objectives of The Study

This research is aimed to:

Knowing the level of English grammar mastery among the fourth semester students of state Islamic college (STAIN) Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2009/2010.

Knowing the level of writing ability among the fourth semester students of state Islamic college (STAIN) Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2009/2010.

Knowing whether there is correlation between English grammar mastery and writing ability among the fourth semester students of state Islamic college (STAIN) Jurai Siwo Metro in the academic year of 2009/2010.

Benefits of The Study

For students

This study will enable students write well.

For teacher

This study will let the teacher attempt this method, know the advantages of grammar mastery to writing, and make writing more efficient.

For school

This study will enable school to give more attention to this problem by giving additional materials attached in curriculum after knowing the advantages of grammar mastery to writing.