THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ WORD ORDER KNOWLEDGE AND THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH AT THE FIRST GRADE OF MA PP-MTI TANJUNG BERULAK KAMPAR REGENCY

Based on the phenomena in MA PP-MTI Tanjung Berulak, the differences of word order between English and Bahasa lead to the difficulty in writing. Using Bahasa word order in writing English could affect students’ writing quality. The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between students' word order knowledge and their writing ability in MA PP-MTI Tanjung Berulak Kampar. The researcher takes the population as the sample of the research, the total of sample is 46 students. In order to take the data of the research, the researcher used multiple choice test and written test. The multiple choice test consisted of 30 items. The researcher used pearson product moment correlation coefficient, the result of the analysis calculated by SPSS 23.0 program. Based on the data analysis, it shows that sig.t = .000 was smaller than 0.05 (sig.≤ 0.05). it can be concluded that Ha (alternative hypothesis) is accepted. In other words, there is a significant correlation between students’ word order knowledge and their ability in writing descriptive paragraph at the first grade of MA PP-MTI Tanjung Berulak Kampar Regency. Keywords: Correlation, Word Order Knowledge, Ability in Writing Descriptive Paragraph