Tell : Teaching of English Language and Literature Journal
Vol 4 No 2 (2016): September

A Correlation between Student’s Mastery of Past Tense and Their Achievement in Writing Narrative Text

Ahmad Zainuddin (Unknown)
Gusti Nurhafifah (Unknown)
Armeria Wijaya (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jul 2016

Abstract

This research purposed to search and find out the correlations between students’ mastery of past tense and their achievement in writing narrative text. The method in this research used a purposive sampling technique with total sample 30 students.  In this research, the data are obtained using two kinds of test namely Grammar and writing test. Meanwhile, the data were analyzed using Product Moment Pearson. The outlays of this research, the average score of past tense is 69,33and writing score is 77,33. Thus, the final result in this research when the formula correlation is applied, the score is 0,797 or substantial. It means that the r value is higher than r table; students’ master past tense influence to writing narrative text. It can be concluded that there is a positive correlation between students’ mastery of past tense and their achievement in writing narrative text

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Tell

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Tell : Teaching of English Language and Literature Journal (e-ISSN 2657-2443 and p-ISSN: 2338-8927) is a journal of English Language Teaching (ELT), linguistics, and literature published in April and September by English Education Department of Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya. This journal is ...