A Correlation between Students’ Simple Present Tense Mastery and Their Learning Motivation Toward Their Ability to Comprehend Descriptive Text of VIII Grade Students at SMP Kartika 1-6 Padang

Irmandi, Irmandi and Adzanil, Prima Septy and Lely, Refnita (2017) A Correlation between Students’ Simple Present Tense Mastery and Their Learning Motivation Toward Their Ability to Comprehend Descriptive Text of VIII Grade Students at SMP Kartika 1-6 Padang. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the correlation between students’ simple present tense mastery and and their learning motivation toward their ability to comprehend descriptive text of VIII grade students at SMP Kartika 1-6 Padang. The hypothesis of this research was there was a significant correlation between students’ simple present tense Mastery and their learning motivation toward their ability to comprehend descriptive text of VIII grade students at SMP Kartika 1-6 Padang. The number of population was 112 students. There were distributed into four classes; VIII 1, VIII 2, VIII 3, and VIII 4. The researcher took one class as sample by using convenience sampling technique. The class selected as sample was VIII 4. The researcher gathered the data by using grammar test to measure students’simple present tense mastery, questionnaire to measure students’ learning motivation and reading test to measure students’ ability to comprehend descriptive text. To analyze the data the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula and Multiple Correlation Formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found first finding of this study was that the coefficient of correlation between students’ simple present tense mastery and their ability to comprehend descriptive textwas 0.74. To see the whether such correlation is significant or not, it was compared with value of at significant level 0.05 and df = n-2 (26). As matter of fact the value of was 0.388.It means that was bigger than (0.74>0.388) therefore, it can be stated that there is significant positive correlation between students’ simple present tense mastery and their ability to comprehend descriptive text(see Appendix 31).The second finding of this study was the coefficient of correlation between students’ learning motivation and their ability to comprehend descriptive textwas 0.52. To see the whether such correlation is significant or not, it was compared with value of at significant level 0.05 and df = n-2 (26). As matter of fact the value was 0.388. It means that was bigger than (0.52 >0.388) therefore, it can be stated that there is significant positive correlation between students’ learning motivation and their ability to UNIVERSITAS BUNG HATTAcomprehend descriptive text (see Appendix 32).The third finding of this study was the coefficient of correlation between students’ simple present tense mastery and their learning motivationwas 0.42. To see the whether such correlation is significant or not, it was compared with value of at significant level 0.05 and df = n-2 (26). As matter of fact the value was 0.388, it means that was bigger than (0.42 >0.388) therefore, it can be stated that there is significant positive correlation between students’ simple present tense mastery and their learning motivation (see Appendix 33).The fourth finding was the coefficient of correlation between students’ simple present tense mastery and their learning motivation toward their ability to comprehend descriptive text was 0.77. To see the whether such correlation is significant or not, the researcher compared that f withf . If f is bigger than f , the correlation is significant. In fact, f was 32.22 while the value off with the level of significance 0.05 and degree of freedom (df=n-k-1) (25) was 3.39 (n= total number of sample, k= total of independent variable).It means that f was bigger than f (32.22> 3.39). In other words, there is significant positive correlation between students’ simple present tense mastery and their learning motivation toward their ability to comprehend descriptive text on VIII grade students at SMP Kartika 1-6 Padang (see Appendix 34). The researcher suggested the teacher togive more exercises to read and ask the students to improve their ability in grammar and learning motivation. For the students, they should study more about grammar especially simple present tense and improve their learning motivation and they should read more to increase their ability to comprehend descriptive text. Further researchers are suggested to conduct a study related to the problems of students dealing with other aspects of grammar and factors making students able to comprehend the texts.

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