ABSTRACT

NAME :ISTIANAH
NPM
:110060068
TITLE :THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS ABILITY OF
PAST TENSE AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING
RECOUNT

English is an international language which is widely spoken by people in

most countries in the world. Because of the importance of it, nowadays English
should be learned by the students from elementary school until university. They
also have to master for basic language skills they are reading, listening, speaking
and writing. They also have to master grammar, a lot of vocabularies and
pronunciation.
Grammar is important to be taught to the students. It is one of the language
components that the students have to master. Writing is important skill. Generally
writing uses formal language style. In learning formal language, grammar should
be achieved well. Past tense is one of language features of writing recount text.
Based on the statement above, the writer would like to find out the
correlation between students ability in past tense and their achievement in writing
recount text.
The writer used correlational method in this study. The data were
processed and analyzed according to these steps: taking the data, coding, scoring,
tabulating using SPSS version 16 and taking the conclusion based on the statistic
result.
The result of this study shows that there is a very strong correlation
between students ability in past tense and their achievement in writing recount.
It can be seen from the result of statistical calculation which found t observed
(6.41) is higher than ttable (2.021) at level significance 5%. It means that there is
correlation between students ability in past tense and their achievement in writing
recount. In the other word we can say that the hypothesis is accepted. The result of
robserved is 0.72. Referred to the table of coefficient value, the result interpreted as
high or strong correlation. It means that there is strong correlation between
students ability in past tense and their achievement in writing recount text.