The Correlation between Linguistic Intelligence and Students' Narrative Performance at Stain Jurai Siwo Metro

Abstract

This present study aims at knowing the correlation between linguistic intelligence and sudents’ narrative performance at STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro. This research used quantitative approach and correlation design. The population of this research was all of the students at the third semester of English Education Study Program of STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro, which was divided into seven classes. The researcher just took one class randomly as sample (cluster random sampling). There are two variables investigated in this research, the independent variable is linguistic intelligence and the dependent variable is students’ narrative performance. The data of this study were obtained by distributing questionnaire set and the free writing test. Then, they were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment formula. In this study, the researcher calculated the score between two variables and found that the score of computed r calculation was 0,934. The score of r table with 30 as the degree of freedom (df) = N-2 was 0,374 at 0,05 level of significance. The findings of this research revealed that the score of r calculation was higher than the score of r table, so the alternative hypothesis was accepted. It could be concluded that there was positive correlation between linguistic intelligence and students narrative performance at the third semester of English Education Study Program at STAIN Jurai Siwo Metro.