Abstract:
As a foreign language, English is not easy language to be learnt. English has
four important skills to be mastered. To master the four skills, we have to master
the grammar as the basic. Based on the statement above, the objective of this
study is to find out the correlation between the students ability in using past tense
and in their recount text recognition at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2
Mirit, Kebumen in the Academic Year of 2012/2013.
The type of this research is experimental and quantitative research. The
number of the population in this research is 192 students. The number of the
sample is 32. The instrument that used to collect the data is a test. There were 25
questions to be tested. The data was analyzed by using descriptive analysis and
inferential statistic.The research data were analyzed by using product moment
Pearson. The formula used to find out the correlation between students ability in
using past tense and in their recount text recognition. The results of this research
are as follows, the average score of the student’s ability in using past is 65. The
average score of the student’s recount text recognition is 76.87. The final from the
formula was 0.159. It shows that the correlation between the students ability in
using past tense and recount text recognition was very low.
The finding shown above can be proved that the amount of samples (N=32)
and the level of significance (5%), the result of the computation done both
manually and SPSS is 0.159. Based on the value in the table r product moment,
the computation shows that robatined was lower than rtable (ro < rt) that is 0.159 <
0.339 and it is categorized as very low correlation. It means that there is a
significance correlation between the students’ ability in using simple past tense
and in their recount text recognition at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Mirit
Kebumen in the academic year of 2012/2013 but the significance value is very
low correlation.
