A correlation between students’ morphological awareness and their accuracy in writing recount text

The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is a significant correlation between students’ morphological awareness and their accuracy in writing recount text. This is quantitative research by using ex-post facto design. The population of the research was the students of the first grade of SMAN 1 Way Jepara. The researcher took five students from each ten classes as sample by using lottery, so total sample of students were 50. There were two instruments; the first test was morphological awareness test adapted from McBride-Chang et al. (2005) and Zakaria (2008) and the second test was writing a recount text test for measuring the students’ accuracy in writing. The data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation in SPSS version 25. The result of the correlation analysis showed there was a significant correlation between students’ morphological awareness and their accuracy in writing recount text with coefficient correlation was higher than the critical value (0.798>0.297) at significant level .01. It means that the H1 is accepted and H0 is rejected. It can be concluded that morphological awareness influenced students’ accuracy. Keywords: Correlation, Morphological Awareness, Accuracy in Writing.