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Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching

The Correlation between Students’ Mastery in Simple Past Tense with the Ability of Writing Recount Text (The Correlational Study of the Tenth Year Students of SMA Pembangunan Lab UNP) Oktavia Murdani; Mukhaiyar Mukhaiyar
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9, No 4 (2020)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Padang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v9i1.107904

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Simple past tense is usually used to express an action or condition that occurred in or during the past time. Simple past tense refers to complete action that occured in the past. Since the purpose of recount text is to retell our experiences or event that happened in the past, past tense should be utilized in the text. Students can use severel tenses to write about the past condition, but the simple past tense is often used dominantly. Based on the research question mentioned previously, the purpose of this research as follow is to find out whether there is a correlation between simple past tense mastery and writing recount text ability of tenth graders students in SMA Pembangunan Lab UNP. The researcher will use quantitative method since the data concerned appears numbering. The researcher chose one class from seven classes of tenth grade students of SMA Pembangunan Lab UNP in the academic year of 2019/2020. The class that the writer chose was class which learned English Peminatan Program. The writer wants to observe namely students’ mastery in past tense and their ability in writing recount, two instruments are utilized. Both are in the form of test. And in this study the writer used two types of tests; objective test in the form of completion test and cloze test to test students’ past tense mastery and essay type test for testing students writing ability. To find out whether or not there is a relationship between students’ mastery of past tense and their ability in writing recount, the correlation coefficient showing the degree as well as the direction of the relationship between the two variables being investigated will be computed. Because there was always a possibility that the result of the study will show no relationship between the variables, the following Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used.
The Use of “Kahoot” (Online Quiz Application) in Teaching Grammar for Second Year Students at SMA Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP Rahaka Panji Prawira; Mukhaiyar Mukhaiyar
Journal of English Language Teaching Vol 9, No 1 (2020)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Padang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (693.106 KB) | DOI: 10.24036/jelt.v9i1.109172

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This research is motivated by the lack of mastery of Grammar in students. This is because the practice in the learning process is still not varied, one example of an exercise that can be used is Kahoot. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the use of Kahoot on the teaching of Grammar students in the second year of the SMA Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP. This research uses a quantitative with quasi-experimental methods “pre-test and post-test control group design”. The population in this study were second year students of SMA Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP who were registered in the June-December period of the 2019/2020 school year. The research sample was 20 students of class XI IBB as the experimental class and 22 students of class XI MIPA 1 as the control class. The data of this study are the scores of the final test results of Grammar teaching without and using Kahoot second year students of SMA Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP. The test scores were compared using the t-test formula to determine the effectiveness of using Kahoot in Grammar teaching. Based on the results of the t-test, it was concluded that learning using Kahoot was effective in the teaching of Grammar in the second year students of SMA Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP because tcount> ttable (4.75> 1.68) at a significant level of 0.05. So, it was concluded that the teaching of Grammar in the second year students of SMA Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP by using Kahoot was better than without using Kahoot.