THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF IMPERATIVE SENTENCE AND THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING PROCEDURE TEXT AT THE NINTH GRADE OF SMPN 30 BATAM

Abstract

The association between ninth-grade students at SMPN 30 Batam's ability to produce procedural texts and their mastery of imperative sentences is the topic of this thesis. The goal of this study was to ascertain whether there was a connection between students' proficiency with imperative sentences and their ability to create process texts. This study's theories are concerned with the mastery of imperative language and the capacity for procedural text creation. In this study, quantitative research was employed. Two additional instruments were used in this study to assess and compile data on the two variables. Researchers evaluated students' command of imperative phrases using a 20-question objective test. They also utilized it to evaluate how well they could create process manuals, researcher used analytic rating scale adapted from Tribble. The researcher used Pearson Product Moment test to measure the two variables, with the calculation obtained the result of r-table is 0,565942 with significance level 0.05; n=40 which is the r-count is higher than the r-table (0,565942 > 0.308). According to the results of data accumulation, it can be concluded indicates there is a strong correlation between students' grasp of imperative sentences and their ability to create procedural language