HUBUNGAN ANTARA PENGUASAAN TATA BAHASA JEPANG TERHADAP KETERAMPILAN MENULIS PADA MATA KULIAH ESSEI SAKUBUN

This research is intended to find out the correlation between mastery Japanese grammar and the ability to write Japanese language of level III student of Japanese Language Education Program of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta University. The method that are used in this research is correlational method. The sample of this research are the level III student of Japanese Language Education Program which included 28 people. The instruments that are used are documents and questionnaires. The result from data analysis that already conducted, it was found that the competency test score of Chukyu Bunkei did not affect the competency score of Essei Sakubun, because it did not have enough significance value to be able to have a correlation. The data analysis result that was conducted showed -0,047 < 0.3550 (r calculates < r table) which according to the hypothesis test criteria means that H0 was accepted and Ha was rejected. While the questionnaires results showed that the teaching materials difficulties’ level and the intensity of the student's efforts for learning does affect the student's learning ability and skill development.