THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENT’S SIMPLE PAST TENSE MASTERY AND WRITING ABILITY OF NARRATIVE TEXT OF SMP NEGERI 112 NORTH JAKARTA IN THE 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

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GITA LIESDIAWATY. NIM: 1001065086 The Relationship between the Eighth Grade Student’s Simple Past Tense Mastery and Writing Ability of Narrative Text of SMP N 112 North Jakarta in the 2012/2013 Academic Year. A Paper. Jakarta:the Study Program of English Education, the School of Teachers Training and Education, the University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, Jakarta 2014.
The Objective of the research is to find the empirical evidence of whether or not there is a significant relationship between the eighth grade student’s simple past tense mastery and writing ability of narrative text of SMP N 112 North Jakarta in the 2012/2013 academic year.
The writer got the data by using test instruments and did the research used survey method with correlation technique. The population of the research is the eighth grade students of SMP N 112 North Jakarta and the writer took two classes by English teacher’s suggestion, 15 students was taken from each class, so there are 30 students for the object of the research. The writer took the data by giving two tests. The instrument of the research was simple past tense test and narrative writing test. The writer used Pearson Product Moment to know the relationship of two variables in this research, simple past tense and writing ability of narrative text.
Based on the result of the data analysis and statistical calculation, it is found ro is 0.895 and the value of level significance rtin 5% is 0.361 with the degree of freedom (df = n-2) is 28. In other word, ro is higher than rt (ro>rt),it means that Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is significant relationship between the eighth grade student’s simple past tense mastery and writing ability of narrative test of SMP N 112 North Jakarta in the 2012/2013 Academic Year.