Kontribusi Keterampilan Membaca Pemahaman Teks Eksposisi Terhadap Keterampilan Menulis Teks Eksposisi Siswa Kelas Viii Smp Negeri 2 Padang Panjang

This article reveals the contribution of skills reading comprehension text exposition to
writing skills text description grade students VIII SMP Negeri Padang Panjang 2.. This
research type is quantitative descriptive method. The design used in this research is the
design contribution. This research population is grade VIII SMP Negeri 2 Padang
Panjang are registered on the 12th school year 2018/2019, i.e. as many as 156
students. The sample in this research are determined by proportional random
sampling of 25% of the population, i.e. 40 students. Research data is a score test results
intermediate reading comprehension text exposition and score the writing skills test
result text exposition. The data obtained through two types of tests i.e. objective tests to
measure the skills of reading comprehension text exposition and performance tests to
measure the skills of writing a text exposition. The results of the research there are
three. First, the skills of reading comprehension text exposition grade VIII SMP Negeri
Padang Panjang 2 are on good qualifications (B) by the value of the average 79.39.
Second, the skills of writing text exposition grade VIII SMP Negeri Padang Panjang 2
are on good qualifications (B) with an average of 80.23. Third, there is a contribution
of reading skills in the description of text to the skills of writing exposition texts of class
grade VIII SMP Negeri Padang Panjang 2 at 76,39%.