give information about a particular person, place, or thing to the readers by fulfilling the five important points of writing including content, grammar, organization,
vocabulary, and mechanics. Thus, in order to produce the good descriptive text the students should have a good ability in writing.
H. Frame of Thinking
Teaching and learning English is the process to help the students to master English both spoken and written. In mastering English the students should understand the
component and skill in English. Component and skills of language are very important to be taught by the teacher and to be learnt by the students to increase their ability in
language. One of the language component is grammar. Grammar is rule how to make a good sentences that can be understood by the reader. In English grammar there is an
important part called tense. Tense is a verb shows the time of an event or action, it is very important in constructing a sentence and it should be mastered by the learners.
Tense is one important parts of structure in English. Simple present tense is one of the English tenses that gives an idea that something occurred in the present. So, mastery
in simple present tense is reflected by the students’ ability to understand and to use
simple present tense correctly in the appropriate sense. Mastering of simple present tense will help students to increase their language skill.
There are four skills in English, one of the skills is writing. There are many kinds of writing, text that should be mastered by the learners. One of the text is descriptive
text. As one of the English text descriptive text be mastered by the students. Descriptive is kind of text tells about something or someone using simple present
tense, the linguistics features of descriptive text are: use specific participant, written in present tense, use linking verbs, use adjective, use relational and material
processes. Descriptive text always use the simple present tense formula. It means that if the students master of grammar more especially in simple present tense, they can
make descriptive text well. Therefore, the writer conducted the research to find out whether or not there is a correlation between
students’ simple present tense mastery and their ability in writing descriptive text.
I. Hypothesis
Based on the frame of thinking above, the writer proposes the hypotheses as follows : H
a
: There is a correlation between students’ present tense mastery and their ability in
writing descriptive text. H
o
: There is no correlation between students’ present tense mastery and their ability
in writing descriptive text.
