ENGLISH:
This study was a correlational study with a quantitative approach. The objectives of this study were: (1) to find out the students’ achievement in using adjective at the eighth grade students of SMP IT Ibnu Sabil Cambai, (2) to find out students’ ability in writing descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP IT Ibnu Sabil Cambai, and (3) to find out whether there was any significant correlation between the students’ achievement in using adjective and their ability in writing descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP IT Ibnu Sabil Cambai. The total number of sample was 24 students that were taken from grade eighth students of SMP IT Ibnu Sabil Cambai. The findings of this study showed that the students’ achievement in using adjective was categorized into good criteria. It could be seen from the result of the mean score of students’ achievement in using adjective, it was 76.96. For the students’ ability in writing descriptive text, the findings of the study showed that the result of the mean score was 76.75. Then, the findings for the correlation between students’ achievement in using adjective and students’ ability in writing descriptive text was 0.860 and the p-value (Sig. (2- tailed)) was 0.000. Meanwhile, the critical value in the table at significant (2- tailed) level 5% was 0.404. It meant that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. It could be concluded that there was significant positive correlation between students’ achievement in using adjective and students’ ability in writing descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP IT Ibnu Sabil Cambai.