This Research is aimed at investigating the correlation betwen students' mastery of past tense and their ability to write a recount text. It is conducted to the second semester student of English Student Education Study Program, Faculty of teachers Training and Educational Scienses, Pakuan University. They were chosen Because they had learned simple past tense and paragraph recount since the fi…
The paper entitled “The Correlation of Students’ Understanding of Simple Past Tense and Their Ability to Write Narrative Text” is aimed to find out whether there is a significant correlation between students’ understamding of simple past tenses and their ability in writing Narrative text. This research was correlation study. Research population was eight grade students of SMPN Dhar…
Writing is one of English skills which enables students to write down their ideas. It is very beneficial because it can facilitate other activities during learning process. Among kinds of texts taught by the teacher during writing activities is recount text. Recount text is a text that retells about event, experience and action in the past. In writing recount text one of the grammar that st…
This research is aimed to investigate the correlation between students understanding of past tense and their ability to comprehend narrative text. It is conducted to the third grade students of SMP Pandu, Bogor. The third grade students is chosen because they had learnt about narrative text in second grade of junior high school and treat their past tense ability for the next level of English Th…
Constructing sentences, Simple Past Tense, Storytelling