Zaleka (2010) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN VOCABULARY MASTERY AND ABILITY IN WRITING HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF MAN SELATPANJANG. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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English is one of foreign language which has been decided to be taught at elementary school up to University and it has become one of compulsory subjects. As a place education medium, the students of MAN Selatpanjang also learn English as a compulsory subject besides the other language subjects such a Arabic language. During this study, the writer found that the second year students of MAN Selatpanjang have enough ability in writing, especially in writing hortatory exposition text. Besides, in teaching and learning process, this school uses KTSP as their curriculum and their teachers have experiences in teaching English. Because of that, hortatory exposition text is exactly taught to their students. Furthermore, the students are active during teaching and learning process and every student is supported by handbook but in the reality, there are students who are not able to write hortatory exposition text. One of its caused is lack of vocabularies. The subject of this research was the second year students of MAN Selatpanjang. This research is mentioned by Quantitative research. The writer took 50% from three classes consisting 86 students. So, the number of sample taken by writer was 43 students. In this case, the writer used random sampling technique in taking sample. The object of this research was vocabulary mastery and ability in writing hortatory exposition text of the second year students of MAN Selatpanjang. In collecting the data, the writer used twice tests those are writing hortatory exposition text to get the data about students’ ability in writing hortatory exposition text and vocabulary test to know vocabulary mastery of the second year students of MAN Selatpanjang. To get the data about students’ vocabulary mastery, the writer used the formula as follows: N= x 100 Number of item Number of correct answer Then to analyze the data, the writer used SPSS for windows. The result shows that there is significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and ability in writing hortatory exposition text of the second year students of MAN Selatpanjang. This correlation is showed by the significant score 0.01 where the α (alpha score) 0.05 is higher than the significant score 0.01. Besides, their coefficient correlation is 0.394 ≥ 0.294 in significant standard 5% and 0.380 significant standard 1%. From the result can be concluded that there is significant correlation between vocabulary mastery and ability in writing hortatory exposition text of the second year student of MAN Selatpanjang.

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