Abstract
This research aimed to find out the correlation between: (1) students‟<strong> </strong>motivation and writing skill; (2) sentence structure and writing skill; and (3) students‟ motivation and sentence structures simultaneously to writing skill. This study used a correlational method with cluster random sample of 39 students of the eleventh grade of SMK N in Surakarta. The researcher used questionnaire, objective tests and essay test as the instruments to collect the data. Single and Multiple Linear Regression and Correlation were used to analyze the data. The research findings show that: (1) there is positive correlation between students‟ motivation and writing skill, in which students‟ motivation brings 17.63% effective contribution to writing skill; (2) there is positive correlation between sentence structure and writing skill, in which sentence structure brings 57.05% effective contribution to writing skill; and (3 ) there is positive correlation between students‟ motivation and sentence structures simultaneously to writing skill, in which students‟ motivation and sentence structure simultaneously bring 74.68 % contribution to writing skill.
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