The Correlation between Students' Mastery of Past Tense and Their Ability in Writing Recount Texts
| Main Author: | Naeni Septianingsih |
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| Format: | PeerReviewed |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2018
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| Online Access: |
http://karya-ilmiah.um.ac.id/index.php/sastra-inggris/article/view/70842 |
Daftar Isi:
- ABSTRAK Septianingsih, Naeni. 2018. The Correlation between Students’ Mastery of Past Tense and Their Ability in Writing Recount Texts. Thesis, Departmen of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang. Advisors: (I) Prof. Bambang Yudi Cahyono, Ph.D. (II) Dr. Niamika El Khoiri, M.A. Keywords: Past Tense, Grammar, Recount Text, Language Use Writing, Correlation English plays important roles in international communication. In Indonesia, English is taught as the foreign language. There are four skills that the students have to learn, namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. On the other hand, vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar are also taught to support the students to learn those four skills. In this study, the writer investigated the correlation between grammar and writing, specifically the students’ mastery of past tense and their ability in writing recount text. The study was conducted to 60 tenth graders students of SMA Negeri 8 Malang. The writer used two instruments which were multiple choice and completion test to measure the students’ understanding of past tense and their ability in writing recount text. After the test was conducted, the writer analyzed the validity and reliability so that the test could be used as the data. Then the data were calculated using Pearson’s formula to know the correlation between two variables. The results of analysis showed that the correlation coefficient (rxy) was 0.753. It then interpreted by rtabe using 5% of significance. The result was that the rxy 0.753 was higher than the rtable 0.2144. It meant that the null hypothesis was rejected. So, there is a significant correlation between students’ mastery of past tense and their ability in writing recount text. In addition, there was a significant correlation between students’ mastery of past tense and their scores in language use component in writing recount text. It can be concluded that the higher the students’ mastery of the past tense, the higher their ability in writing recount text and the higher the students’ mastery in past tense, the higher scores they get in language use component in writing recount text. It is then suggested that English teachers pay attention to grammar when teaching writing and hopefully they motivated to make better teaching strategy to teach grammar. And for the future researcher who wants to investigate the same topic, they are suggested combine grammar with the different aspects of writing.