THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS ABILITY IN COMPREHENDING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AND THEIR ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT AT THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENT OF SMPN 31 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of this research is to identify the students ability in comprehending descriptive text and to discuss the corelation between students ability in comprehending descriptive text and their english achievement .This research is an experimental research which has conducted on the first grade students of SMP N 31 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. In this research, the researcher took 32 students as the sample .Then, the researcher gave a test. The test is doing multiple choice test about descriptive text. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test separated variance. The result of this research shows that the coefficient correlation (r) equals to 0.120, it means that there is significant correlation between the students’ students’ ability in comprehending descriptive text and their english achievement. The correlation between students’ ability in comprehending descriptive text and their english achievement is fair poor.