This research was aimed to find out the correlation between students‟ competence
in constructing wh question and their competence in constructing recount text at
sixth semester students of University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto. This
research was co-relation in nature and the participants were 25 students or 25% of
the population (101). The technique which was used to determine the participants
was random sampling technique by lottery. The data was taken through wh
questions test and writing test. The analyzis showed that the result of product
moment correlation computation between wh question and writing skill was
0.541. It was higher than the value of r-table which was 0.396 in the level of
significance 5%. Therefore this indicated that there were significant correlation
between constructing wh question and constructing recount text.