A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ SIMPLE PAST TENSE MASTERY AND THEIR LEARNING MOTIVATION TOWARD THEIR ABILITY TO WRITE NARRATIVE ESSAY AT THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIERSITY
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Abstract
This research was aimed to find out the correlation between students’ simple past tense mastery and their learning motivation toward their ability to write narrative essay at the third year students of English Department of Bung Hatta University. The hypothesis of this research was that if there was a significant correlation between students’ simple past tense mastery and their learning motivation toward their ability to write narrative essay at the third year studentsof English Department of Bung Hatta University. The number of population was 46 students. They were distributed into two classes. The researcher took two classes as sample by using total sampling technique. The classes selected as sample were classes A and B. To analyze the data the researcher used the Person Product Moment Formula and Multiple Correlation Formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that the students’ simple past tense mastery was bad (45.16%), their learning motivation was very good (58.06%), and their ability to write narrative essay was bad (41.93%). The researcher found the coefficient correlation between students’ simple past tense mastery and their ability to write narrative essay was .45 and value of r table was .355. It means that the r counted was bigger than r table ( .45 > .355) and the correlation was significant. Next, the researcher found the coefficient correlation between students’ lerning motivation and their ability to write narrative essay was .18 and value of r table was .355. It means that the r counted was smaller than r table ( .18 > .355) and the correlation was not significant. Then, the researcher found the coefficient correlation between students’ simple past tense mastery and their learning motivation was .41 and value of r table was .355. It means that the r counted was bigger than r table ( .41 > .355) and the correlation was significant. Finaly, the researcher foundthe value of coefficient of three variables was .44 and f- counted was 0.36 value of f- table was 3.34 in (α 0.05) (df) n-k-1 (28) (see Appendix 23). It means that f- counted (0.36) was bigger that f- table (0.34). It means that the alternative hypothesis stating “there is a significant correlation between students’ simple past tense mastery and their learning motivation toward their ability to write narrative essay was accepted.
Key words: Correlation, Simple Past Tense, Learning Motivantion, Writing Ability