Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018)

The Correlation Study: Student's Mastery of Simple Present and Their Ability in Writing Descriptive

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Novarita Novarita
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Novarita Novarita
Available Online March 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icla-18.2019.73How to use a DOI?
Keywords
correlation, mastery, writing descriptive
Abstract

This study is about the correlation between student's mastery of simple present and their ability writing descriptive. The problem of study was there any significant correlation between student's mastery of simple present and their ability writing descriptive. The purpose of this study was to find out significant correlation between student's mastery of simple present and their ability writing descriptive. The population of this study was all eighth grade students at SMP N 1 BPR Ranau Tengah. The total number of the population was 107 students; out of which 52 students were chosen as the samples. Simple random sampling was used to collect the data proportionally to represent the population, so that they were all well represented. The instruments test was grammar and writing test. In analyzing the data, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient analysis was used. Based on the result of study, the writer found that there was a strong and significant correlation between students’ writing descriptive ability and their simple present achievement that if the students had a good mastery on simple present tense, they would had a good ability in writing descriptive text. There was many students that had good mastery of simple present tense and good writing descriptive paragraph as well.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-683-9
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icla-18.2019.73How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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