THE CORRELATION OF STUDENT’S UNDERSTANDING OF SIMPLE
PAST TENSE ON THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT
THE SECOND GRADE OF MTS AS-SUNAH KOTA CIREBON
NUR AZIZ IMAM D.S. : "THE CORRELATION OF STUDENT’S
UNDERSTANDING OF SIMPLE PAST
TENSE ON THEIR ABILITY IN WRITING
NARRATIVE TEXT AT THE SECOND
GRADE OF MTS AS-SUNNAH KOTA
CIREBON"
The background of the study in this research is the students at the Second
Grade of MTs As-Sunnah Kota Cirebon still difficult in writing narrative text.
Some of students are still confused and difficult to understand English, especially
in writing narrative text. Teaching and writing requires a lot of creativity from a
professional teacher. The teacher always uses the different strategy in teaching
and writing to help them in teaching learning a process. The objective of the study
is to identify whether is any significant differences in students’ comprehension in
writing narrative text between those who were taught by using the rules of
language. This way, hopefully, would be useful for teachers and students in
language teaching and learning.
The research is entitled “The Correlation of Student’s Understanding of
Simple Past Tense on Their Ability in Writing Narrative Text at The Second
Grade of MTs As-Sunnah Kota Cirebon. It is aimed at finding out the Correlation
between student’s understanding of simple past tense and the students ability in
writing narrative text.
The methode of this research is quantitave approach. It means that in the
research is done by using number or data, formula of statistics, structure and
experimental are controlled. Experimental research was used here to get data. In
this research the writer choose and uses comparative method, which is used to
know what are between two or more there is differences in variable that is
analyzed.
The population of the research in writing this thesis is all of the students at
the Second Grade of MTs As-Sunnah Kota Cirebon. All of students at the Second
Grade consists of three classes. In this research the writer took 100% of the
population. The result of The Correlation of Student’s Understanding of Simple
Past Tense on Their Ability in Writing Narrative Text at the Second Grade of
MTs As-Sunnah Kota Cirebon that the students have a good ability in
understanding of simple past tense and they can make good narrative text. In this
case the result has positive influence, it means that there is a good correlation of
the student’s understanding of simple past tense on their ability in writing
narrative text.
The analysis of the test shows that average score of the students test of
students understanding simple past tense was 6.88 rounded to be 7 and the
average score of the students’ test in writing narrative text was 6,81 rounded to be
7. Both of these score can be categorized in good