THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF ENGLISH LEXICON MASTERY ON PARAGRAPH COMPOSING SKILL

Abstract

This study dealt with the interrelationship of English le xicon mastery on paragraph
composing skills of the eight-grade students of Private Junior high school 1 Kerambitan. The
study attempted to elaborate on the effect of lexicon comprehension on students' writing
ability. An ex-post-facto was applied as a research design. The population of the present study
consisted of 512 students and 64 of them were chosen as the samples using the cluster
sampling technique. The type of test that was used to measure the word meaning
comprehension was the cloze task and the essay test to measure the student's writing ability in
describing people and things. The data were descriptively analyzed with an inferential statistic
of SPSS 26. The descriptive statistics included normality test, homogeneity test, Pearson
product-moment, and t-testing. The findings revealed that the more lexicon the students
understand, the more successfully they can describe people or things in the text. The
coefficient correlation was 0.502, the scale of interpretation score was between 0,40-0,60, and
the score of t-table was -1,998. It means that t-counted was high than r-table (-2,562 >-1,998).
Based on the result, the study proved that the students’ lexicon mastery could affect their
descriptive writing significantly. The study suggests the teachers apply appropriate teaching
strategies for further writing in the daily use of context.