Abstract :
The Aim of the present study was to investigate the
correlation and the influence between emotional intelligence
and writing achievement. The eleventh grade students
especially, IPA 1,2,3 were selected as participants of this
study. The instruments which used in this study were an
emotional intelligence questionaire from paul mohapel
model (2015), and writing test was done to measure
students? writing achievement. By using Descriptive writing
rubric from brown (2007) students? writing achievement was
scored the five sub skills of content, grammar, organization,
vocabulary and mechanics. Pearson product moment,
regression analysis, R-square were used to find out the
correlation and the influence between variables. The result
revealed that there was a significant correlation between
emotional intelligence and writing achievement with r =
.388. Besides, there was also a significant influence of
emotional intelligence on writing achievement with 15.1%.
This study could have implications for English language
teachers, course designers, learners, and text book writers.