THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE AND THEIR WRITING ACHIEVEMENT IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT OF THE TENTH GRADE AT SMAN 1 TALANG PADANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2021/2022

ABSTRACT THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE AND THEIR WRITING ACHIEVEMENT IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT OF THE TENTH GRADE AT SMAN 1 TALANG PADANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2021/2022 By ISTI PUTRI SENIMA The purpose of the research is to know the correlation between linguistic intelligence and writing achievement in descriptive text of the tenth grade at SMAN 1 Talang Padang in the academic year of 2021/2022. Linguistic intelligence is when people usually like to read, write, listen, and play word games. They have a good memory for general knowledge and ability to reason. Therefore people with high linguistic intelligence not only show the mastery of language properly, but also can discuss, finish a variety of task etc. Grammar in writing help writers to develop their knowledge of linguistic resources. The research methodology used a correlational research design. The population of the research was the students at the second semester of ten grade at SMAN 1 Talang Padang, the sample was consisting of 67 students. The sample was choosen by doing cluster random sampling. In collecting data, this research used questionnaire that consist 12 items for linguistic intelligence, it was conducted online by using google form and writing achievement test in decriptive text asked students to write 2 paragraf based on topic and sub topic, this test implemented with offline test. After doing the the hypothetical test, based on the data analysis computed by SPSS, it was obtained that Sig (P-Value) were 0,347, means sig (P-Value) is lower than Sig α =0,05. Based on this research there is a correlation between student’s Linguistic Intelligence and Their Writing Achievement in descriptive text of the tenth grade at SMAN 1 Talang Padang in the Academic Year of 2021/2022. Keyword : Correlation Study, Linguistic intelligence, Writing Achievemen