%0 Thesis
%9 Skripsi
%A Fira, Damayanti Anugerah
%A Universitas Pakuan,
%A Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan,
%A pendidikan Bahasa Inggris,
%B Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
%D 2020
%F eprintsunpak:9251
%I Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
%T THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING OF  SIMPLE PAST TENSE AND THEIR ABILITY TO WRITE NARRATIVE  TEXT
%U http://eprints.unpak.ac.id/9251/
%X ABSTRACT  The paper entitled “The Correlation of Students’ Understanding of  Simple Past Tense and Their Ability to Write Narrative Text” is aimed to  find out whether there is a significant correlation between students’  understamding of simple past tenses and their ability in writing Narrative  text. This research was correlation study. Research population was eight  grade students of SMPN Dharma Nusa academic year 2020/2021, it  consists of 56 students that divided into two classes (VIII1, and VIII2). In  selecting sample, the researcher used systematic sampling technique. The  researcher collected the data by using multiple choice and writing recount  text test because in this research, the researcher study about Correlation of  Students’ Understanding of Simple Past Tense and Their Ability to Write  Narrative Text. After the researcher know that there is a Correlation of  Students’ Understanding of Simple Past Tense and Their Ability to Write  Narrative Text, the researcher analyzed how many level correlations  between two variables with prove it. It can be seen from the computation  of the average result of students‘ understanding of simple past tense and  the average result of students‘ ability in writing descriptive text. The  average result of students’ understanding of simple past tense is 70.9 and  the average result of students ability in writing narrative text is 62.65. By  using product momen correlation formula by Pearson, the result of the  computation is rratio is 0.60 which is higher than rtable with N=40 and 5%  significant level is 0.28. The result of rratio is also between 0.400–0.700  which means the relationship between these two variables is in the average  relationship.  Keywords: Simple Past Tense, Narrative Text, writing.