THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’
CREATIVITY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT TENTH GRADE
OF SMK NEGERI 4 TANJUNGPINANG
SKRIPSI
JIHAN PRATIDYA 150388203054
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITAS MARITIM RAJA ALI HAJI
TANJUNGPINANG
2023
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’
CREATIVITY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT TENTH GRADE
OF SMK NEGERI 4 TANJUNGPINANG
Skripsi
Submitted as a Partial Fulfilment For the Undergraduate Degree in English Education
JIHAN PRATIDYA 150388203054
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITAS MARITIM RAJA ALI HAJI
TANJUNGPINANG
2023
Motto
“Skripsi learns about how to be brave, how to be kind, how to be confidence, and how prayers work.”
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the name of ﷲ, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful, all praise to be Allah for the strengths and His blessing for the researcher in completing this skripsi entitled The Correlation between Students’ Creativity and their Achievement in Writing Descriptive Text at Tenth Grade of SMK Negeri 4 Tanjungpinang. This skripsi will be presented to English Language Education Study Program of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji Tanjungpinang as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for S1 degree.
Peace and salutation always be given to our prophet ﷺ ﷴ who has guided us from the darkness to the lightness. However, this skripsi will never exist without any support, encouragement and guidance from several dedicated people. In this opportunity, the researcher intends to address her gratitude and respect to all parties to these following names:
1. Dr. Agung Dhamar Syakti, S.Pi, DEA. as the Rector of Universitas Maritim Raja Ali Haji Tanjungpinang.
2. Assist. Prof. Satria Agust, S.S., M.Pd. as the Dean of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education.
3. Assist. Prof. Gatot Subroto, S.S., M.Pd. as the first Vice Dean of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, and also researcher’s lecturer who always giving support, cheering her up, and spending time to give advices during college period.
4. Assist. Prof. Dewi Nopita, S.Pd., M.Pd. as the Head of English Education Study Program, researchers’ academic advisor, and researcher’s first advisor, for her
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willingness to give assistance, ideas, and encouragements within her time during the skripsi writing process. Researcher’s lecturer who always believe that researcher can finish her skripsi.
5. Assist. Prof. Rona Elfiza, S.Pd., M.Pd. as the researcher’s second advisor for her patience in giving advices, suggestions, and guidance in accomplishing this skripsi. Researcher’s lecturer who always complaining her patiently and showing how to revise it.
6. To all of my lecturers in English Education Study Program, who always give the researcher knowledge and guidance during the period of her study.
7. Sulasmi, S.Pd., M.M. as the headmaster of SMK Negeri 4 Tanjungpinang who give permission to researcher in conducting her research.
8. Dea Aisyah, S.Pd. as the English teacher and also researcher’s senior in ESA who always give information and accompany researcher to do her research in the class.
9. X RPL 1 class of SMK Negeri 4 Tanjungpinang who were willing to spend their time as the sample in this research.
10. The researcher’s beloved parents, Eddy Suhermanto and Kasmiyati, thank you for your eternal love, pray, support, and everything that you had given. The best parents in researcher’s world.
11. Tantra Mantri Wiria, Amd. Kep., and Santy Riana, Amd. Kep.,the researcher’s brother and sister in law who always support and encouraging her in any condition accomplishing her skripsi.
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12. Pristya Dhea Natasya, S.Pd., and Mekar Pratiwi, S.Pd. researcher’s bestfriends during college period. Thank you so much for helping, accompany, sparing time, studying about correlation, always be there for researcher to face all the struggle in composing this skripsi.
13. Alimatusyadya, S.Pd. as the researcher’s classmate who always giving information about correlation skripsi.
14. Oktavia Andrian Yuri, S.Pd., and Regita Maharani Ardhia Safitri (unofficially S.Pd.), the researcher’s bestfriend during college period. Thank you for reminding and helping her in this skripsi process.
15. Safna Mulyawati, S.M., and Nur Afrianti Soulissa, S.IP., the researcher’s bestfriends since high school, thank you for strengthen her accomplishing this skripsi.
16. Bapak Widodo Susanto and all administration staff of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education who always helping researcher to complete the administration during skripsi period.
17. The last but not least, all the people who can not be mentioned one by one and who have also contributed to her study.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT………...………...………...i
TABLE OF CONTENTS……….……….v
LIST OF FIGURE………...ix
LIST OF TABLE………...x
ABSTRAK………....xi
ASBTRACT………....xii
CHAPTER I (INTRODUCTION)……….1
1.1. Background of The Study……….………….………...1
1.2. Identification of The Problem………...………...3
1.3. Limitation of The Problem………..………...3
1.4. Research Question………...………...………3
1.5. Purpose of The Research……….………...4
1.6. Significances of The Study………..………...4
1.6.1. Theoretically………..………..4
1.6.2. Practically………....4
1.7. Definition of Key Terms………..………...5
CHAPTER II (LITERATURE REVIEW)……….6
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2.1. Review of Related Theory………..………....6
2.1.1. Writing………...………..6
2.1.1.1. Definition of Writing………6
2.1.1.2. The Process of writing………..7
2.1.2. Creativity………...…..8
2.1.2.1. Definition of Creativity……….8
2.1.2.2. The Indicator of Creativity………...9
2.1.2.3. The Stage of Creativity……….……..10
2.1.3. Descriptive Text……….………11
2.1.3.1. The definition of descriptive text……….………...11
2.1.3.2. The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text….………12
2.2. Review of Related Finding………...13
2.3. Conceptual framework………..……15
2.4. Hypothesis………16
CHAPTER III (RESEARCH METHOD)………...17
3.1. Research design………17
3.2. Time and Place of Research……….17
3.3. Research Procedure………..17
3.4. Population, Sample, and Sampling………...………18
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3.4.1. Population………..………18
3.4.2. Sample………...18
3.4.3. Sampling………18
3.5. Research Instrument……...………..19
3.5.1. Writing Descriptive Text………...19
3.5.2. Creativity Questionnaire………...……….21
3.6. Technique of Data Collection……..……….22
3.6.1. Writing test………22
3.6.2. Questionnaire……….23
3.7. The technique of data analysis………..24
3.7.1. Writing Test Analysis………24
3.7.2. Creativity Questionnaire Analysis……….………25
3.7.3. Method of Successive Interval………...26
3.7.4. Normality Analysis…..………..………27
3.7.5. Linearity Analysis……….……….…27
3.7.6. Person Correlation Analysis……….…….27
3.7.7. Hypothesis Test……….28
3.8. Research Schedule………29
CHAPTER IV (RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION)………..30
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4.1. Data Description………...30
4.1.1. The Questionnaire of Students’ Creativity ………...………30
4.1.2. Writing Score……….33
4.2. Data Analysis………36
4.2.1. Normality Analysis………....36
4.2.2. Linearity Analysis……….……….38
4.2.3. Pearson Correlation Analysis………...………..39
4.2.4. Hypothesis Test………..………40
4.3. Discussion……….41
CHAPTER V (CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION)………..44
5.1. Conclusion………44
5.2. Suggestion……….44
BIBLIOGRAPHY……….……...x
APPENDICES………xvi
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LIST OF FIGURE
Figure 2.1. Conceptual Framework……….15
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LIST OF TABLE
Table 3.1. Scoring Rubric of Writing Test………..…19
Table 3.2. Indicator of Creativity………21
Table 3.3. Questionnaire of Students’ Creativity………22
Table 3.4. Categorization Norm of Students’ Writing…………...………...25
Table 3.5. Likert Scale in Creativity………...……….25
Table 3.6. Categorization Norm of Students’ Creativity……….………26
Table 3.7. Correlation Coefficient Interpretation………28
Table 3.8. Research Schedule………..29
Table 4.1. Questionnaire Result of Students’ Creativity………...…..30
Table 4.2. Value of Distribution Frequency of Students’ Creativity………...32
Table 4.3. Writing Test Score………..33
Table 4.4. Value of Distribution Frequency of Students’ Achievement……….35
Table 4.5. Normality Test of Students’ Creativity………..37
Table 4.6. Normality Test of Students’ Writing Achievement………38
Table 4.7. Linearity Test of Creativity Questionnaire and Writing Achievement…..39
Table 4.8. Pearson Correlation Test………..………..39
Table 4.9. The Positive Correlation between Creativity and Writing……….41
