CORRELATION BETWEEN THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS’ SIMPLE PAST TENSE MASTERY AND THEIR SPEAKING ABILITY IN RETELLING THE STORY AT SMPN 7 PADANG
Abstrak
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 into eight classes. The researcher took one class as sample by using cluster random sampling technique. The class selected was class VIII.1. After analyzing the data, the researcher found the students’ simple past tense mastery was moderate. In detail, there were 6.7% students who had high ability, 70% students who had moderate ability, and 23.3% students who had low ability. The researcher also found the students’ speaking ability in retelling the story was moderate. In detail, there were 13.3% students who had high ability, 63.4% students who had moderate ability, and 23.3% students 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 simple past tense mastery and speaking ability in retelling the story was significant. So that, the alternative hypothesis was accepted. Based on the conclusion, the teacher should give more exercises about simple past tense because students’ simple past tense mastery will be good, if their speaking ability in retelling the story is good.
Key words: Simple Past Tense, Speaking, Retelling the Story