CHAPTER IV RESULT AND DISCUSSION
A. Findings
1. Data Analysis
To analyze the data, SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 16 is used to get the result of the simple present tense mastery, result of the ability in
writing descriptive text, result of the normality test, and result of the linearity test. In this case, non parametric statistics,
rank spearman’s formula by using SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 16 was used to getting the result
of the hypothesis testing. It used rank spearman’s formula because a result of one of
the data that is simple present tense mastery test did not have a normal distribution.
2. Result of the Tests
a. Result of the Simple Present Tense Mastery
The test was conducted in order to see students’ ability in simple present tense
mastery. The test was administered in SMPN 1 Karya Penggawa Pesisir Barat on October 10
th
, 2016. The minimum score was 30 and the maximum score was 88. There was 1 student who got the score 30. One student got the score 88. Eighteen
students got the score lower than 70 and 10 students got the score higher than 70. The mean of the simple present tense mastery test is 62. It can be seen in appendix 16.
Figure 1 Result of the Simple Present Tense Mastery Test
presenttense Stem-and-Leaf Plot Frequency Stem Leaf
1.00 3 . 0 4.00 4 . 0555
5.00 5 . 00055 9.00 6 . 000055555
7.00 7 . 0055555 4.00 8 . 0058
Stem width: 10 Each leaf: 1 cases
Based on figure 1, it can be seen that there were 19 students who got under average scores and 11 students got a good scores over average score 70 Standar Minimum of
Criteria.
b. Result of Ability in Writing Descriptive text Test
The test was conducted in order to see students’ ability in writing descriptive text.
The test was administered in SMPN 1 Karya Penggawa Pesisir Barat on October 10
th
, 2016. The minimum score was 65 and the maximum score was 75. There were 2
students who got the score 65. Five students got the score 75. Four students got the score lower than 70 and 19 students got the score higher than 70. The mean of writing
descriptive text test is 71. It can be seen appendix 17.