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A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS MASTERY OF PAST

TENSE AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING RECOUNT

AT THE SECOND YEAR OF SMPN 8 KENDARI

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This is due to the fact that recounts use past tense(Anderson, 1997)

Recount text are structured in different ways to achieve itspurpose and the purpose of a recount on the other hand,

is to tell what happened (Derewianka,1990)

Persons can communicate a variety of massages to a closeor distant, know or unknown reader or readers by writing

(Olshtain , 2001) .


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ResearchQuestion

Is there any significant correlation between students mastery ofpast tense and their achievement in writing recount?

Objectiveof theStudy

The correlation between students mastery of the past tense andtheir achievement in writing recount.

Significance Of

TheStudy

To inform the teacher about grammatical components that need to be given

emphasis to assist students to write a grammatically accurate recount text.

To motivate the students to practice more than they did before.

To inform the reader about the correlation between students mastery of pasttense and their achievement in writing recount.

Scope ofthe

Study

This study is limited to analyze the correlation between students mastery ofpast tense and their achievement in writing recount of the eight grades ofSMPN 8 Kendari in the Academic Year of 2010/2011.


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Correlation measuring of relationship between two or morequantitative variables (McMillan, 1992, p. 98)

Mastery A complete control or the state of having controlover something superiority in competition, victory

eminent skill, or through knowledge (Hornby,1989).

Past tense Indicating time terminating in the past, whether atime word is given or not (Frank, 1972, p. 73).


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Literature Review

Insight of Grammar

Grammar is the description of the ways in which words can

change their forms and can be combined into sentences inthat language (Harmer, 2001, p. 12)

English Tense

Tense is any of the forms of the verb that may be used to

indicate the time of the action or state expressed by theverb (Hornby, 2005)

Past TensePast tense indicated definite time terminating in the past,whether a time word is given or not (Frank, 1972)


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Definition of Writing

Boardman & Frydenberg (2002, p.27-28) states that there are fivestages in constructing a good written text. They are establishingtopics, organizing ideas, writing first draft, revising first draft, andthe last is proofreading the final draft.

Recount TextRecount is one of genres of writing to retell events for the purposeof informing or entertaining (Callaghan & Rothery, 1993)

Recount and Past Tense

Recounts are bound up with past tense since in recounts; pasthappenings are told or written (Gerot & Wignel, 1994).


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Design ofthe Study

Correlationalresearch refers tostudies in which thepurpose is to discover

relationship betweenvariables through theuse of correlationalstatistics. (Gall &Borg, 2003)

The researcher willapply non-

experimentalquantitative research,which usescorrelation design.

Population& Sample

Population:138students

Sample:30students22 %

TheInstrumentof the Study

Grammar test

Writing test


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The formula of reliability as follow:

(Arikunto, 2002, p. 103)

The formula of validity as follows:

(Arikunto, 2002, p. 72)


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In analyzing the data, the research usedproduct moment formula as follows;

(Arikunto, 1996, p. 256)


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Classification of Students Mastery of Past Tense

Classification of Students Writing Recount Achievement

No Classification Level of Achievement Frequency Percentage12345

Very highHigh

ModerateLow

Very low

8.6- 107.0- 8.55.6- 6.93.6- 5.50.0- 3.5

28137-

30

6.67%26.67%43.33%23.33%

-100%

No Classification Level of Achievement Frequency Percentage

12345

Very highHigh

ModerateLow

Very low

8.6- 107.0- 8.55.6- 6.93.6- 5.50.0- 3.5

181182

30

3.33%26.67%36.67%26.67%6.67%

100%


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Summary of hypothesis testing

Variable rxy count rxy table result

Students` mastery

of past tense (X)and

Achievement inwriting recount (Y)

0.94 0.361 rxy count > rxy table

Ho rejectedH1 accepted

Variable tcount

ttable

df result

X and Y 14.2 2.048 28 tcount > ttable

Ho rejectedH1 accepted


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Based on the analysis, the researcher found thatthere is a significant correlation between students mastery

of past tense and their achievement in writing recount at

the second year of SMP Negeri 8 Kendari.

The result of this study show that the value of the

coefficient correlation rxy = 0. 94 and tcount (14.2) was

higher than ttable (2.048), it meant that 94% of students`achievement influenced by their mastery of past tense.


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ConclusionBased on the finding of this research, the writer

concludes that grammar, in this case the past

tense, plays an important role in applyinglanguage skills especially writing skill.


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Limitation

In this research, the writer only focused on

correlating students` mastery of past tense and

their achievement in writing recount at thesecond year of SMP Negeri 8 Kendari

academic year 2011


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Recommendation

1. The participant of this study was the students of Junior High School, so thefurther study can be done at the same level or the higher level Senior HighSchool because different atmosphere of the study will offer diverse result.

2.The English teacher of SMP Negeri 8 Kendari should increase their strategyto improve students mastery of past tense in order to get the maximal resultof writing recount achievement.

3.The teacher should provide an opportunity for students to have an extensivewriting practice in the class and give students more writing assignments.

4.There are still others factors which affects students achievement in writingrecount such as the students motivation, their interest in learning writing,their health or frame of mind on the day they took the test, the frequency of

practice, their writing habit, etc. Therefore, further research which takesthose factors into consideration should be conducted.

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