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.