THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR MASTERY (SIMPLE PAST TENSE) AND THEIR SKILL IN REWRITING SHORT NARRATIVE TEXT AFTER WATCHING MOVIES AT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

Dewinta, Zuhari and Adzanil, Prima Septy (2022) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR MASTERY (SIMPLE PAST TENSE) AND THEIR SKILL IN REWRITING SHORT NARRATIVE TEXT AFTER WATCHING MOVIES AT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out the correlation between the second-year students’ grammar mastery (simple past tense) and their skill in rewriting short narrative text after watching movies at the English Department of Bung Hatta University. The design of this research was correlational research. The population members of this study was 37 students. to choose the sample, the researcher used a total sampling technique. The number of samples of this research was 30 students. The researcher used two instruments to collect the data: grammar test and writing test. After analyzing the data, the researcher found a positive correlation between the second-year students’ grammar mastery (simple past tense) and their skill in rewriting short narrative text after watching movies at the English Department of Bung Hatta University. It can be shown from the result of the data analysis that the value of rcalculated of this research was 0.61, while the value of rtable with the level of significance 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df = n-2) was 0.374. It means that the rcalculated was higher than rtable (0.61 > 0.374). Therefore, the alternative hypothesis of this research stating that there is a significant correlation between the students’ grammar mastery (simple past tense) and their skill in rewriting short narrative text after watching movies” was accepted. The correlation among two variables, there are grammar mastery and writing skills. The researcher proposed suggestions. English lectures are suggested to guide their students to develop their grammar and their writing skill by motivating them to watch some short movies. and then, the students are suggested to improve their grammar and do more exercises to improve their writing skills especially for writing a narrative text.

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