A CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ TENSES MASTERY AND THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 KAMPAR
| Main Author: | Marida, |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2010
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| Online Access: |
http://repository.uin-suska.ac.id/11724/1/2010_2010379PBI.pdf http://repository.uin-suska.ac.id/11724/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This research paper entitles “A Correlation between the Second Year Students’ Tenses Mastery and Their Ability in Writing Narrative Paragraph at Senior High School 1 Kampar”. There are two variables which are used in this research. The first is variable X (Students’ tenses mastery) and the second is variable Y (Students’ ability in writing narrative paragraph). The subject of this research was the second year students’ tenses mastery, and the object was a correlation between the second year students’ tenses mastery and their ability in writing narrative paragraph. The instrument used was a test. In tenses, the writer gave 30 questions. They were multiple choice, rearrange the jumble word, true-false, and matching tenses. In writing, the test was making narrative paragraph, and the titles were three categories. The limitation of the problems tenses refers to simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense, and writing refers to narrative paragraph. The writer took 43 samples from 123 students, it was 35 %. The technique of the data analysis of this research was statistical product moment correlation. It was used because the data contained interval and interval scale, as Hartono (2004:101) points out if the variables are interval and interval, the formula is as follow: = ∑ ∑ 2 - ( )( ) ∑∑ ∑ yx r xy '' '' fx fx ' ' 2 N fyfx ∑ ∑ fy N 2 ' ' N fy 2 After computing the gathered data by using of SPSS, it is found that the correlation between students’ tenses mastery and their writing ability is 0.276 which is in between 0.20 – 0.399. Thus, it is concluded that students’ tenses mastery does not significantly effect the students’ writing narrative paragraph. Meaning that, there would be no significant correlation between the students’ tenses mastery and their ability in writing narrative paragraph. In short, H is rejected and H is accepted.