ABSTRAKKeterampilan menulis teks berita merupakan salah satu kompetensimenulis yang penting untuk dikuasai siswa, karena pada semester II untuk kelasVIII pada jenjang Sekolah Menengah Pertama (SMP), terdapat kompetensi dasar(KD) pada Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP) yang mengharuskansiswa menulis teks berita sebagai salah satu ketuntasan menempuh mata pelajaranBahasa Indonesia. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji: ada tidaknyahubungan antara kemampuan penalaran berbahasa dan keterampilan menulis teksberita; antara motivasi menulis dan keterampilan menulis teks berita; serta antarakemampuan penalaran berbahasa dan motivasi menulis secara bersama-samadengan keterampilan menulis teks berita.Pelaksanaan penelitian ini selama enam bulan dari Juli sampai denganDesember 2015. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif denganpendekatan survei korelasional. Populasi mencakup semua siswa kelas VIII SMPNegeri di Kota Madiun, Provinsi Jawa Timur tahun pelajaran 2015/2016 yangberjumlah 14 sekolah negeri. Sampel penelitian ini berjumlah 165 siswa.Penentuan jumlah sampel dilakukan dengan teknik stratified sampling, dan clusterrandom sampling. Pengumpulan data keterampilan menulis teks beritamenggunakan tes menulis, kemampuan penalaran berbahasa menggunakanobjektif test, dan motivasi menulis dengan angket. Ketiga variabel penelitiantersebut dianalisis menggunakan regresi korelasi sederhana maupun ganda.Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa: (1) ada hubungan positif antarakemampuan penalaran berbahasa dan keterampilan menulis teks berita (ry.1=0,61).Hal ini signifikan karena hasil uji t menunjukan t1 = 9,83 > tt = 1,645 dengankontribusi 37,21%; (2) ada hubungan positif antara motivasi menulis danketerampilan menulis teks berita (ry.2 = 0,48). Hal ini signifikan karena hasil uji tmenunjukan t2 = 6,98 > tt = 1,645 dengan kontribusi 23,04%; dan (3) adahubungan positif antara kemampuan penalaran berbahasa dan motivasi menulissecara bersama-sama dengan keterampilan menulis teks berita (Ry.12 = 0,69). Halini signifikan karena hasil uji F menunjukan Fo= 73,61 > Ft = 3,05 dengankontribusi 47,61%. Kontribusi kemampuan penalaran berbahasa lebih besar darimotivasi menulis. Hal tersebut dikarenakan kemampuan penalaran berbahasamerupakan kemampuan berpikir seseorang secara logis, kritis, dan sistematis.Kemampuan berpikir yang demikian dapat membantu siswa menulis teks beritadengan kata-kata, susunan kalimat dan paragraf serta organisasi isi secara runtutdan logis.Kata kunci: kemampuan penalaran berbahasa, motivasi menulis, keterampilanmenulis teks berita.ABSTRACTWriting news text skill is one of the important writing competence forstudents mastered, because in the second semester for the eighth grade of juniorhigh school, there is a basic competence in education unit level curriculum(KTSP) which requires students to write news text as one of completeness takingIndonesian lesson. The objective of this research is to investigate the correlationbetween reasoning to speak ability and writing news text skill or not; thecorrelation between writing motivation and writing news text skills or not; and thecorrelation between reasoning to speak ability and writing motivation togetherwith writing news text skills or not.This study is done for that is six months from July to Desember 2015. Thisstudy uses quantitative methods correlational survey approach. Populationinvolves all the eighth of Junior High State School students in Madiun, East Javain the school year 2015/2016 that amounts 14 state school. Samples in this studyare 165 students. Determination of the sum of the samples is done by stratifiedsampling technique, and cluster random sampling. The collection of data inwriting news text skills uses written test, the reasoning to speak ability usesobjective test, and writing motivation uses questionnaire. The three of that studyvariables are analyzed using simple and double regression correlation.The results of this study show that: (1) there is a positive correlationbetween reasoning to speak ability and writing news text skills as indicated by thevalue of ry.1 = 0,61, and this is significant as the result of the t test shows that thevalue of t1 = 9,83 is greater than that of ttable = 1,645 with the contribution of37,21%; (2) there is a positive correlation between writing motivation and writingnews text skills as shown by the value of ry.2 = 0,48, and this is significant for theresult of the t test shows that the value of t2 = 6,98 is greater than ttable = 1,645with the contribution of 23,04%; and (3) there is a positive correlation betweenreasoning to speak ability and writing motivation together with writing news textskills by the value of Ry.12 = 0,69, and this is significant as the value of Fcount 73,61is greater than that of Ft = 3,05 with the contribution of 47,61%. The contributionof reasoning to speak ability is greater than writing motivation. It happens becausereasoning to speak ability is a person's ability in thinking logically, critically, &systematically. This kind of thinking ability could help students to write news textby using words, sentence and paragraph structures, and content organizationcoherently and logically.Keywords: reasoning to speak ability, writing motivation, writing news text skill