THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS’SIMPLE PAST TENSE MASTERY AND THEIR READING ABILITY IN RECOUNT TEXT AT SECOND SEMESTER ON SMP NEGERI 6 BEKASI IN 2012/2013 ACADEMIC YEAR

shafa aida agustiana; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m. pd.; martriwati, m. pd.;

ERDA FITRIANA NINGRUM. NIM: 0901065079. The Relationship Between The Eight Grade Students’ Past Tense Mastery And Their Reading Ability in Recount Text of 6 Junior High School Bekasi in 2012/2013 Academic Year. A Paper; Jakarta, FKIP of Muhammadiyah University of Prof.Dr.Hamka, 2013.
The aim of this research is to get the empirical evidence of the relationship between the past tense mastery and the reading ability in recount text of eight grade students in 6 Junior High School Bekasi. The population of this research are all of the students at eight grade 6 Junior High School Bekasi. The sample of the research are 50 students which were taken randomly of 10 classes.
The finding of the research shows that students‟ past tense mastery gets average score 56.24 and students‟ reading ability in recount text gets average score 66.86. After calculating and analyzing the data, the result shows ro is higher than rt (ro = 0.28 > rt = 0.48). So it can be concluded that there is a relationship between past tense mastery and reading ability in recount text at the eight grade students of 6 Junior High School Bekasi. The data also shows that the to = 4,3 and tt = 0,004 it means that to is higher than tt. So it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between past tense mastery and reading ability in recount text at the eight grade students of 6 Junior High School Bekasi. The regression analysis shows that the past tense mastery gives 34 % contribution in recount text The empirical influence can be described as follows:
Ŷ = 49.16 + 0.34 X
So it can be concluded that the students‟ past tense mastery takes the importance and positively influencing to the students‟ reading ability in recount text of the eight grade students‟ of 6 Junior High School Bekasi. The benefit for teachers is this research can serve as a reference to improve the quality of teaching and knowing the extent of students' past tense mastery and the students' reading ability.