Electronic Theses and Dissertation

This study is entitled ''the correlation between grammar and writing (a case study at english department of teacher training and education faculty of syiah kuala university)". it is conducted to find out the correlation between grammar mastery and writing ability. in this study, the writer gave the toefl test for the test of grammar and the test of writing. it consisted of forty multiple choice questions for grammar test, and an essay question for writing test. the test was given on february 03, 2007 at 09 o'clock at rku iv. as the sample, the sixth semester students of english department of teacher training and education faculty of syiah kuala university were selected. the result analysis indicates that the students who got higher score in grammar test also got higher score in writing test. on the other hand, the students who got lower score in grammar test also got lower score in writing test. from the statistical analysis by using formula (spearman rho), the coefficient correlation is 0.42. based on that coefficient correlation, there is positive but low correlation between grammar and writing. in other words, the hypothesis of this study is accepted.