The Correlation Between Students’ Reading Motivation, Vocabulary Mastery and Writing Ability in Recount Text

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Abstract:The purposes of this research are to know the correlation between students' reading motivation and writing ability in recount text, the correlation between vocabulary mastery and writing ability in recount text, the correlation between students' reading motivation and vocabulary mastery and the correlation between students' reading motivation, vocabulary mastery, and writing ability in recount text. This research is quantitative research by using correlation method. In taking the sample, the researcher used saturated sampling technique. The amount of the sample are 38 students at third semester of English Study Program in Muhammadiyah University Academic Year 2015/2016. This research instrument were test and questionnaire. The finding showed that there is correlation between students' reading motivation and writing ability in recount text namely rxy=0,534. Then, there is correlation between vocabulary mastery and writing ability in recount text namely rxy=0,583. After that, there is correlation between students' reading motivation and vocabulary mastery namely rxy=0,488. Lastly, there is correlation between students' reading motivation ,vocabulary mastery and writing ability in recount text namely rxy= 0,788. Keyword: Correlation, Students' Reading Motivation, Vocabulary Mastery, Writing Recount TextTeaching English consist of four language skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. Writing is one productive skill besides speaking. By and large, in educational side writing activity cannot be separate from school system, because by writing the students can build their creativity. In every school, the teacher often asks student to write something based on the material given. When students are asked to write at least they need to build a 23