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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENT AND STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Indah Lestari; Rudha Widagsa
FRASA: English Education and Literature Journal Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Vol 3 Issue 1 March 2022
Publisher : Universitas Duta Bangsa Surakarta

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The role of linguistic intelligent in learning a foreign language particularly in writing skill has received increased attention across a number of disciplines in recent years. This study aims to investigate the correlation between linguistic intelligence and students' ability to write descriptive texts. This quantitative research was conducted at a vocational high school in Central Java, Indonesia in January 2022. The data was collected through a questionnaire instrument and a descriptive text writing test of 80 samples from 394 populations. The data analysis technique employed product moment and descriptive analysis using SPSS. The result of the study shows the significance value obtained from the product moment correlation = 0.528 and the significance value 0.000 < probability 0.05, which means the hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the hypothesis in this study (Ha) was accepted. Based on the statistical analysis, this study concluded that there was a correlation between students’ linguistic intelligence and the ability of writing descriptive text.
ERROR ANALYSIS OF SIMPLE PRESENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT Indah Lestari
Journal of English Language Teaching and English Linguistics Vol. 5 No. 2 (2020): Journal of English Language Teaching and English Linguistics
Publisher : Universitas PGRI Yogyakarta

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The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of the ability to write descriptive text. This research was conducted at the University of PGRI Yogyakarta and specifically investigated how simple present tense is used and which errors are most often done by research subjects.The subjects of this study were 8 4th-semester students majoring in English Education at PGRI University of Yogyakarta. Researcher used qualitative descriptive method in this study. The first step taken by researcher was to gave students three themes, namely Family, My Idol & Beautiful Place in Yogyakarta. After that students choose one of these themes and then wrote it into descriptive text. By using the Surface Strategy Taxonomy, researcher then classify what errors they have made.The results of this study indicate that students made 33 errors (47.14%) from 70 Present Present Tense sentences. This was less than the correct use of Simple Present Tense, with a total of 37 (52.86%). Students made the most error in misformation by 13 (39.39%). Whereas the most rarely made error is addition with a total of 2 (6.07%).