THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PEER FEEDBACK AND THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH AT MADRASAH ALIYAH ANSHOR AL-SUNNAH TG.BELIT

This study purposes to determine whether there is a significant correlation between students’ peer feedback and their ability in writing descriptive paragraph at Madrasah Aliyah Anshor Al-Sunnah Tg.Belit. Based on the preliminary study, the writer found and identified some problems, that some of the students had inadequate result of writing ability in descriptive paragraph, some of the students are failure do the peer feedback activity in the classroom, and the causes of peer feedback activity was failure in the classroom. The type of this research was a correlational research design. The writer distributed questionnaire, which consists of 20 questions and test, in order to determine the students peer feedback and their ability in writing descriptive paragraph. The total population of this research was 33 students. Due to the number of population is not large, the writer represented all of the students as the sample. In analyzing the data, the writer used Pearson product moment correlation coefficient through SPSS 23.0. After analyzing the data, the result of the score of sig. 0.000 ≤ α (0.05). It means that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. In conclusion, there is a significant correlation between students’ peer feedback and their ability in writing descriptive paragraph at Madrasah Aliyah Anshor Al-Sunnah Tg.Belit. Keywords: Correlation, Peer Feedback, Ability in Writing Descriptive Paragrap