University EFL Students’ Grammar Mastery and Their Writing Ability: A Quantitative Study

Abstract

Grammar is one of the language components that plays a vital role in performing good writing. However, problems occur when students produce a piece of writing. This study aimed to look into students' grammar mastery, discover the students' writing ability, and investigate the correlation between students' grammar mastery and students' writing ability. This study used a quantitative and correlational design to determine the correlation between two variables. The data were collected from 57 students from two classes from English Language Education Department students batch 2020 at a private university in Yogyakarta. The data were collected through documents of students' grades in Capita Selecta on Grammar and Academic Reading and Writing class. The first finding showed that the mean score was 79, indicating that the students' grammar mastery in this study was categorized into an advanced level. Moreover, the second finding showed that the mean score was 86 means the students' writing ability also was categorized as a very good level. The last finding showed that the significant value was 0.690 (p = 0.690 > 0.05), which means there is no significant correlation between students' grammar mastery and writing ability.

The Needs Analysis of ESL Learners’ Expository Writing Challenges: Perspectives of ESL Teachers

“…To master writing skills, ESL learners need to acquire the ability to incorporate basic and advanced writing skills. The former encompasses the proper use of vocabulary, spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing genre Fitria (2020); Moses & Mohamad (2019), while the latter involves advanced skills include the integration of ideas, proper language structure and effective information presentation (Maru et al, 2020;Murtiningsih et al, 2022;Zaki, 2022). This dual proficiency is essential for ESL learners to be excellent in their written communication.…”