STUDENTS’ WRITTEN DISCOURSE COMPETENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR SPEAKING SKILL ACHIEVEMENT (A CASE STUDY OF SIXTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF MUHAMMADIYAH PURWOREJO UNIVERSITY IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2005/2006)
Neutron, Rhamlie (2002) language users create discourse by using language to express, interpret or negotiate in communication. Therefore, this research is aimed to know the students’ discourse competence as it is real essential for them having a quallified discourse competence to build a meaningful communication.
The population of this research are the sixth semester students of english section. It is taken by using random sampling technique in which is means taking the subject of research randomly, they are taken by mixing all subject in that population and all considered equal.
Based on the research, it is found that the correlation between students discourse competence and their speakinh skill achivement of r value showa that 0,66 conclude in 0,600 – 0,800 which is said moderate.
From this findings, we can conclude that there is a positive correlation between studebts’ discourse competence and their speaking skill achivement. It means the average of sixth semester studnts of muhammadiyah purworejo university got moderate sompetence in holding oral or written communication
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. SETTING OF THE STUDY
All communication event in this world go by intercession of language. Communication is a process of speaker transferring messsage to hearer, one participant to the other participant (Panggabean, 1981 : 23), performatively goes on by written and oral media. Even some communication events go by using special signs or gestures in some certain conditions.
