The Relationship Between The Eighth Grade Students’ Simple Past Tense Mastery and Reading Comprehension of Recount Text on The First Semester at SMP N 102 Jakarta in The 2015-2016 Academic Year

mohamad akram laldin; drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m. pd; martriwati, m. pd.;

Muhammad Rizki Fauzi. The Relationship Between The Eighth Grade Students’ Simple Past Tense Mastery and Reading Comprehension of Recount Text on The First Semester at SMP N 102 Jakarta in The 2015-2016 Academic Year. Paper. Jakarta: The Study Programme of English Education,The Faculty of Teacher‟s Training and Education, University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2015.
This study aims to find out the significant relationship between the eighth grade students‟ simple past tense mastery and reading comprehension of recount text. This study was conducted in SMP N 102 Jakarta in the first semester of the 2015-2016 academic year. The study population were 30 students who were fully examined. The sampling technique used was saturated with a purposive sampling technique. This study used quantitative with a correlational technique. Both of the instruments used an objective test, which was multiple choice. After the data were normally distributed and linear based on the tests for pre-requisite, it can be continued to do pearson‟s product moment and significant analysis. Based on the calculation results, the writer obtained a linear regression which is Y = 10.13 + 0.87 X. Hypothesis testing was done by calculating the product moment correlation and obtained r observed = 0.88 > 0.36 = r table which means that Ho is rejected or Hi is accepted. In addition, the writer found out tobserved>ttable= 9.89> 1.70, which means Ho is rejected or Hi is accepted. Therefore, the result of this study concludes that there is a significant relationship between the eighth grade students‟ simple past tense mastery and reading comprehension of recount text. It means, if the students who had a good in simple past tense mastery so the students also were being good in reading comprehension of recount text.