The Correlation Between the Students' Motivation and Their Writing Ability

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukan apakah ada hubungan antara motivasi siswa dengan kemampuan menulis siswa. Desain penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif menggunakan ex post facto designs. Populasi dari penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas dua di SMA Bandar Lampung. Peneliti menggunakan sampel penelitian sebanyak 34 siswa. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah tes motivasi siswa dan tes menulis. Data yang terkumpul dianalisis menggunakan Pearson Product Moment Correlation di SPSS 16.0. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa nilai r dari motivasi siswa dan kemampuan menulis siswa .921 dan .719. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa ada hubungan yang significant antara motivasi siswa dan kemampuan menulis siswa. Semakin tinggi motivasi siswa maka semakin tinggi pula kemampuan menulis siswa. The purpose of this study was to find out whether there was a significant correlation between the students' motivation and their writing ability. This was quantitative research applied ex post facto designs. The population of this study was the second grade students of SMA Bandar Lampung. The researcher used sample of 34 students. The instruments of this research were numbering of students' motivation test and writing test. The collected data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation in SPSS 16.0. The result showed that r of students' motivation and their writing ability was .921 and .719. Therefore, it can be concluded that there was significant correlation between students' motivation and their writing ability. The higher students' motivation, the higher students' writing ability will be