Correlation between the Second Grade Students’ Simple Past Tense Mastery and Their Speaking Ability in Retelling the Story at SMPN 7 Padang

Hilda, Haryati and Lisa, Tavriyanti and Ernati, Ernati (2015) Correlation between the Second Grade Students’ Simple Past Tense Mastery and Their Speaking Ability in Retelling the Story at SMPN 7 Padang. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the students’ simple past tense mastery and their speaking ability in retelling the story and correlation between the second grade students’ simple past tense mastery and their speaking ability in retelling the story at SMPN 7 Padang. The hypothesis of the research was there is correlation between the second grade students’ simple past tense mastery and their speaking ability in retelling the story at SMPN 7 Padang. The number of population member was 251 students. they were distributed in to eight classes; class VIII.1, VIII.2, VIII.3, VIII.4, VIII.5, VIII.6, VIII.7, VIII.8. The researcher took one class as sample by using cluster random sampling technique. The class selected was class VIII.1. In this research, the researcher used the Pearson Product Moment Formula and calculated the data by using Microsoft Excel and manual calculation to analyze the data. After analyzing the data, the researcher found the students’ simple past tense mastery was moderate. In detail, there were 2 students (6.7%) who had high ability, 21 students (70%) who had moderate ability, and 5 students(23.3%) who had low ability. The researcher also found the students’ speaking ability in retelling the story was moderate. In detail, there were 4 students (13.3%) who had high ability, 19 students (63.4%) who had moderate ability, and 7 students (23.3%) who had low ability. At last, the researcher found the value of rcounted (.82) was higher than rtable (.36). it means that the correlation between two variables, simple past tense mastery and speaking ability in retelling the story was significant so that, the alternative hypothesis that said “there is correlation between the second grade students’ simple past tense mastery and their speaking ability in retelling the story at SMPN 7 Padang” was accepted. Referring to the result, it can be concluded that there is significant correlation between the second grade students simple past tense mastery and their speaking ability in retelling of the story. Based on the conclusion, the teacher should give more exercises about simple past tense because if students’ simple past tense mastery is good, their speaking ability in retelling the story will be good.

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