Nova Wesnita (2011) THE CONTRIBUTION OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE MASTERY TOWARD ABILITY IN READING NARRATIVE TEXT OF THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT SMA NEGERI 1 KUANTAN MUDIK KUANTAN SINGINGI REGENCY. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Abstract

Based on syllabus of English at the first year of SMAN 1 Kuantan Mudik, one of genres that learned by the students is narrative text. After doing preliminary study at SMAN 1 Kuantan Mudik, some of students of the first year still have low ability in reading narrative text. The writer interpret that they have low ability in reading narrative text because they get difficulties to understand every sentence in narrative text. Ur stated that grammar is not only making the text look right but also effect the meaning of the text. As we know, narrative has the primary language features written by using simple past tense. Simple past tense included one of grammar that will affect the meaning of narrative text itself. Thus, the writer interested to conduct the research entitle the contribution of simple past tense mastery toward ability in reading narrative text of the first year students at SMAN 1 Kuantan Mudik Kuantan Singingi Regency. The main focus of this research is to find whether there is contribution of students’ simple past tense mastery toward their ability in reading narrative text of the first year students at SMAN 1 Kuantan Mudik Kuantan Singingi Regency or not. The subject of research was the first year students of SMAN 1 Kuantan Mudik. In this research, the writer took 42 students as the sample from 168 students of total population by using proportional random sampling technique. In collecting data, the writer used test. There were two tests that writer used: simple past tense test and reading narrative test in form of multiple choice test. In analyzing the data, the writer used SPSS version 16. The result of this research showed that the result of students’ simple past tense mastery of the first year at SMAN 1 Kuantan Mudik Kuantan Singingi regency is categorized into less category. It can be proved from the mean score of students’ simple past tense mastery is 54.28. The result of students’ ability in reading narrative text of the first year students at SMAN 1 Kuantan Mudik Kuantan Singingi regency is categorized into enough category. The mean score of students’ ability in reading narrative text is 65.00. The last result of this research showed that there is contribution of students’ simple past tense mastery toward their ability in reading narrative text. Its contribution is 26.6%. Thus, the writer concludes that the more knowledge simple past tense is, the higher ability in reading narrative text will be.

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