The Correlation Between English Department Students' Grammar Scores And Their TOEFL Grammar Scores (Students Of English Department Academic Year-2018 UIN Ar-Raniry)

The researcher intends to conduct a research about the The Correlation Between English Department Students' Grammar Scores And Their TOEFL Grammar Scores because regard with Language Development Unit at UIN Ar-Raniry which use that kind of TOEFL test. The TOEFL PBT was tested by Language Development Unit at Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. It is obligation of every student in the English Study Program in Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh to pass the minimum TOEFL score at least 500 points. But in fact, this rule makes some students find difficulties in answering TOEFL whereas they are students of English Education Study Program who basically learn English. Based on the research finding, it is found that the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It can be seen from the data analysis that rxy = 0.386 and to = 2.253 with degree of freedom (Df) = n - 2 = 31 – 2 = 29; in the table of significant of 5% it is obtained rt = 0.367 dan tt = 2.045. As a result, rxy ˃ rt and to ˃ tt that means there is correlation between the students’ grammar mastery and their reading comprehension although the correlation is weak. Then, it can be concluded that if the students have high scores in grammar, they will also have high scores in reading comprehension, and the other way around.