@thesis{thesis, author={Gatot Subroto and Pinka Anggaracita and Satria Agust}, title ={THE STUDENTS’MASTERY OF VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR TOWARDWRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT (A CORRELATION STUDY AT SEVENTH GRADE OF SMPIT ALMADINAH TANJUNGPINANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018)}, year={2019}, url={http://repositori.umrah.ac.id/664/}, abstract={This research discussed the students? mastery of vocabulary and grammar toward writing descriptive text. The goal of this research was to find out whether or not there is a correlation between the students? mastery of vocabulary and grammar toward writing descriptive text. The populations of the research were 64 students and 32 students were being the sample of the research. All was from the seventh grade of SMPIT Al Madinah Tanjungpinang in the academic year of 2017/2018. The sample was taken by simple random sampling. This research was used correlation study by collecting the data from the multiple choices and essay test. The researcher used SPSS version 22.00 to calculate the data. The result demonstrated that the data of this research was normal, homogeny and linear. There was positive correlation of each variable. Based on the data analysis computed by using application, it was obtained that the number of r is 0.539. It showed there was moderately correlation between the students? mastery of vocabulary and grammar toward writing descriptive text. From the T-test, the result showed the value of tcount > t table, it means Ha was accepted. Therefore, there was a significant correlation between the students' mastery of vocabulary, and grammar toward writing descriptive text at the seventh grade of SMPIT Al Madinah Tanjungpinang in the academic year of 2017/2018.} }