A CORRELATIONAL STUDY BETWEEN THE MASTERY OF PAST TENSE AND THE ABILITY OF WRITING RICOUNT TEXT

Abstract

This research was intended to know if there was any positive corralation between the
mastery of past tense and the ability of writing recount text of the twelfth grade students of
SMAN 1 Gianyar in academic year 2020-2021. There were in all 75 students taken as the
samples of the research using random sampling with lotery system. In the research
instruments the samples were asked to write sentences in recount text and text
construction test. The data obtained were statistically analysed using presequisit analysis
(normality and homogeneity test) and Person Product moment correlational and t-test. It is
revealed that the alternative hypothesis is vividly accepted. It means that there was
significant correlation between the mastery of past tense and the ability of writing recount
text of the twelfth grade students of SMAN 1 Ganyar in 2020-2021 academic year.