Students’ Creativity and Its Relation to Greeting Card Writing Ability

Creativity plays an important role in students' learning process. Creativity and writing have a very close and mutual relationship. One of the writing materials in the English syllabus is writing Greeting Cards. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between students’ creativity and greeting card writing ability. The study employed quantitative with pre-experimental research method. The sample was the eight-grade students of SMP-IT Madrasatul Quran Aceh Besar which consisted of 18 students chosen purposively. Furthermore, this research used a pre-test and post-test, observation, and questionnaire to collect the data. The researcher analysed the data using descriptive analysis and Pearson correlation analysis. The result of this study showed that the correlation coefficient value between students’ creativity and greeting card writing ability was 0,857 which categorized positive and very strong correlation. Meanwhile, from the result of questionnaire analysis, it can be seen that the majority of students had positive response through the implementation of students’ creativity in greeting card writing. Therefore, it can be concluded that there was positive relationship between students’ creativity and greeting card writing ability