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This study aims at determining whether there is a positive relationship between reading interest and writing skill to make exposition text in the tenth grade of SMKN 3 Karawang. The study subjects are 85 respondents. A descriptive quantitative approach with correlation analysis used in this research. Data collecting techniques are tests and questionnaires. Technical analysis of prerequisite test data obtained from the normality test, homogeneity test, and linearity test by using SPSS 16. Hypothesis test obtained from simple correlation by using SPSS 16 with a significance level of 5% (α =0.05). The study result consists of (1) A normality test showed Asymp.Sig (2-tailed) = 0.875 > α = 0.05. So, the variables' data spread normally. (2) A homogeneity test showed Sig= 0.412 > α = 0.05. So, the variables' data are homogeneous. (3) Based on linearity test result, the equation is Ŷ= 50.045 + 0.369 X. (4) Based on correlation test result, Tcount = 5.028 > Ttable = 1.662. It means that there is a positive relationship between students’ reading interest and exposition wiring skill in the tenth grade of SMKN 3 Karawang. It can be concluded that if reading interest is improved, students’ exposition text writing skills will also increase. |
