A CORRELATION STUDY BETWEEN GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE, VERBAL LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE, AND WRITING ABILITY

The study is intended to verify the correlation between grammatical competence and verbal linguistic intelligence toward writing ability of the fourt semester students of English Education of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret University in the Academic Year of 2011/2012, either partially or simultaneously. The method is correlational study which used documentation and test to collect the data. The population of this study was all the fourth semester Students of English Education of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Sebelas Maret University in the academic year of 2011/ 2012. By using cluster random sampling, the writer took class B which consists of 30 students as the sample. The technique to analyze the data was Linear Regression Analysis Statistic by using SPSS 16. The result of the study shows that there is a positive correlation between grammatical competence and verbal linguistic intelligence toward writing ability, either partially or simultaneously. Both grammatical competence and verbal linguistic intelligence have contribution to writing ability. The positive correlation means that the increase or decrease of independent variables, grammatical competence and verbal linguistic intelligence, will be followed by the increase or decrease of dependent variable, writing ability