Prominent : Journal of English Studies
Vol 3, No 1 (2020): Prominent : Journal of English Studies

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE MASTERY AND WRITING ABILITY IN SELF-INTRODUCTION TEXTS OF FEMALE AND MALE STUDENTS

Luluk Safira Ikrima (Universitas Muria Kudus)
Suprihadi Suprihadi (Universitas Muria Kudus)
Nuraeningsih Nuraeningsih (Universitas Muria Kudus)



Article Info

Publish Date
04 May 2020

Abstract

Grammar is very important in learning and using languages so that using correct grammar will indicate clearly what the writer says. The objective of this research is to find out if the correlation between simple present tense mastery and writing ability in self-introduction texts of the tenth grade students of SMK N 1 Kalinyamatan Jepara is  1) significant for female students, and 2) not significant for male students. This correlational research was conducted in SMKN 1 Kalinyamatan Jepara with 30 students from Class X Tata Boga 2 (BG 2) for female and 30 students from Class X Teknik Elektronika Industri 1 (EI 1) for male as the samples. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to analyze the data. The findings show that the correlation of simple present tense mastery and writing ability in self-introduction texts of female students is significant while that of male students is not significant.

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Journal Info

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Pro

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Prominent Journal of English Studies is a national journal of OJS published by English Education Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Muria Kudus (UMK) dedicated to publish high quality articles of research and non-research in the field of English Studies covering ...