THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SIMPLE PAST TENSE MASTERY AND RECOUNT TEXT WRITING SKILL OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENT OF SMA PKP JIS EAST JAKARTA IN THE 2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

nur annisa rizkiyanti taufik; siswana, m. pd.; dra. roslaini, m. hum.;

UMAR: NIM: 0901065303. The Relationship between Simple Past Tense
Mastery and Recount Text Writing Skill at the Tenth Grade Students on SMA PKP JIS
East Jakarta in The 2014/2015 Academic Year. A Paper: Jakarta, FKIP of
Muhammadiyah University Prof. DR. Hamka, Jakarta, 2014.
The aim this research is to get the empirical evidence of the relationship
between simple past tense mastery and recount text writing skill of the tenth grade
SMA PKP East Jakarta in the 2014-20115. The populations of this research are all
of the student at tenth grade on SMA PKP East Jakarta. The samples of the
research are 30 students which were taken randomly of 3 classes.
The finding of the research shows that students‟ sample past tense mastery
gets average 58,1 and students‟ recount test writing skill gets average score 56.2.
after calculating and analyzing the data, the result shows robserved is higher than
rtable (robserved = 0,749 > rtable = 0,361). So it can be concluded that there is a the
relationship between simple past tense mastery and recount text writing skill of
the tenth grade SMA PKP East Jakarta. The data also shows that at the tobserved=
5.91 and ttable = 1.70 , it means that tois higher than ttable. So it can be concluded
that there is a significant relationship between simple past tense mastery and
recount text writing skill of the tenth grade SMA PKP East Jakarta. The
regression analysis shows that the sample past tense mastery gives 53%
contribution in recount text writing skill. The empirical influence can be described
as follow Ŷ = 30.67 + 0,47 ̅
So it can be concluded that the students‟ simple past tense mastery takes
the importance and positively influencing to the students‟ recount text writing
skill of the tenth grade SMA PKP East Jakarta. The benefit for teacher is this
research can serve as reference to improve the quality of teaching and knowing
the extent of the students‟ simple past tense mastery an the students‟ recount text
writing skill.