The correlation between simple past tense mastery and writing narrative text mastery at The Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotapinang

Sari, Dhea (2022) The correlation between simple past tense mastery and writing narrative text mastery at The Eleventh Grade Students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotapinang. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the correlation between simple past tense mastery and writing narrative text mastery at the eleventh grade students of SMA negeri 1 Kotapinang. The students problem in this research were: 1) Students consider that learning English is very difficult, 2) students are worried about making mistake, 3) Students have less confidence, 4) students are lack in mastering Simple past tense and writing narrative text. The purpose of this research are to know of how significant the correlation between simple past tense mastery and narrative text writing mastery at the eleventh students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotapinang. The formulations of the problem in this research were, how is the students’ mastery in simple past tense at the eleventh students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotapinang?, How is the students’ mastery in writing narrative text at the eleventh students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotapinang ?, And is there a positive correlation between simple past tense mastery and narrative text writing mastery at the eleventh students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotapinang?. The kinds of this research was quantitative research with correlational method. The sample were 30 students and chosen by randomly from 3 classes. In this research, the researcher used the way to take sample is used by lottre. The instrument of the test is multiple choice for simple past tense and essay test for writing narrative text. To analyze the data, the researcher used Product Moment formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of variable X was 79.5 and mean score of variable Y was 74.76. The result showed that there was a significant correlation between two variables. It means the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and (H0) was rejected. It was concluded that there was a significant correlation between simple past tense mastery and writing narrative text mastery at the eleventh students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotapinang and the criteria score interpretation between simple past tense mastery and writing narrative text mastery at the eleventh students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotapinang in good category.

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