The Correlation Between Past Tense Mastery and Students' Ability in Writing a Narrative

Abstract

This research aims to know whether past tense mastery and students’ ability in writing a narrative has correlation or not. The research method in this research was descriptive quantitative research. The technique for collecting data by giving tests to the students. The tests are objective and subjective test. Objective test is completion test and subjective test is students’ writing. To analyze the data, the writer did some steps. They were 1) calculating the mean score of past tense mastery (X) and students’ ability in writing a narrative (Y), (2) calculating a positive correlation between past tense mastery (X) and students’ ability in writing a narrative (Y) by using Product Moment Formula, (3) Calculating the significant correlation between students’ mastery in past tense (X) and students’ ability in writing a narrative (Y) by comparing it with correlation table. The result of this research showed that there was a positive and significant correlation between students mastery in past tense and students’ ability in writing a narrative. It could be seen from r count was bigger than r table (0,894>0,312) Keywords: Past tense, Writing, Narrative