THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LEARNING EFFORTS AND THEIR ENGLISH WRITING ABILITY

Abstract

The objective of the study was to determine the correlation between students’ learning efforts and their English writing ability. The study used a correlational study. The participants of the study were 82 students of MTs. Madinatun Najah Rengat. The data were collected using questionnaire, observation and test. The data was analyzed using serial statistics correlation. Based on the data processing, the students’ learning efforts were categorized low and the students’ writing ability was categorized very low. The research finding showed that there was a very high significant correlation between students’ learning efforts and their English Writing ability