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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE AND READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT
The paper entitled “The Correlation of Students’ Understanding of Simple
Past Tense and Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text” is aimed to find out
whether there is a significant correlation between students’ understanding of
simple past tenses and their ability in reading Narrative text. This research was
correlation study. Research population was eight grade students of SMPN Dharma
Nusa academic year 2020/2021, it consists of 32 students. In selecting sample, the
researcher used systematic sampling technique. The researcher collected the data
by using multiple choice and reading narrative text test because in this research,
the researcher study about Correlation of Students’ Understanding of Simple Past
Tense and Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text. After the researcher know
that there is a Correlation of Students’ Understanding of Simple Past Tense and
and Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text, the researcher analyzed how
many level correlations between two variables with prove it. It can be seen from
the computation of the average result of students ‘understanding of simple past
tense and the average result of students ‘ability in reading narrative text. The
average result of students ‘understanding of simple past tense is 70.9 and the
average result of students ability in reading narrative text is 62.65. By using
product moment correlation formula by Pearson, the result of the computation is
rratio is 0.60 which is higher than rtable with N=40 and 5% significant level is
0.28. The result of rratio is also between 0.400–0.700 which means the
relationship between these two variables is in the average relationship.
Keywords: Simple Past Tense, Narrative Text, Reading Comprehension
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