Correlation Studies of Past Tense Mastery and Writing Achievement of Personal Recount Text of The 10th Grade Students at SMAN 1 Tenggarang Bondowoso

Muniroh, Badriyatul (2022) Correlation Studies of Past Tense Mastery and Writing Achievement of Personal Recount Text of The 10th Grade Students at SMAN 1 Tenggarang Bondowoso. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Badriyatul Muniroh, NIM. T20186116. 2022. Correlation Studies of Past Tense Mastery and Writing Achievement of Personal Recount Text of The 10th Grade Students at SMAN 1 Tenggarang Bondowoso. Thesis. English Education Department. Education and Teacher Training Faculty. State Islamic University of KH Achmad Siddiq Jember. Advisor: Nina Sutrisno, M.Pd.
It was found that there was an inconsistent reality which was students’ ability in mastering simple past tense and writing achievement of a recount text. It drives the writer to conduct the correlation research between students’ past tense mastery and writing achievement in the form of guided personal recount text of the 10th grade students at SMAN 1 Tenggarang Bondowoso.
The problem statement of this research was formulated as “Is there any significant correlation between students’ past tense mastery and writing achievement in the form of guided personal recount text of the 10th grade students at SMAN 1 Tenggarang Bondowoso?”. On the basis of this question, the research objective was “to find out whether there was a significant correlation between students’ past tense mastery and writing achievement in the form of guided personal recount text of the 10th grade students at SMAN 1 Tenggarang Bondowoso”.
The methodology of this research was quantitative research especially correlation design. The research sample was 36 students of X MIPA 2 (as respondent class) and 34 students of X IPS 2 (as non-respondent class) which was taken by using random sampling technique. The techniques of data collection were test and interview. There were two kinds of test which were objective and subjective test. In analyzing the data, the researcher used Pearson’s Correlation Product Moment Formula by IBM SPSS Statistics 22 version.
The result showed that the r value (0.497) was higher than r table (0.329) (0.497 > 0.329) at the significant level 0.05 with df (N-2)/N=36, df (36-2) =34. It meant that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. It concluded that there was a moderate relationship between students’ past tense mastery and writing achievement in the form of guided personal recount text of the 10th grade students at SMAN 1 Tenggarang Bondowoso.

Keywords: Past Tense Mastery, Writing Achievement.

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