Writing Descriptive Text at the First Semester og the Eighth Grade of SMPN 1 Karya Penggawa Pesisir Barat in 20162017 Academic Year.
C. Discussion
Based on the result of research, it had shown that simple present tense mastery positively correlated with
students’ ability in writing descriptive text. Based on the result above, it can be seen that the result was higher. Besides that, simple present
tense mastery can improve each aspects of students’ ability in writing descriptive text.
At the beginning of activity, the try out was conducted in SMPN 1 Karya Penggawa Pesisir Barat on October 7
th
, 2016. Try out test was given to 30 students of the eighth grade out of the sample. The writer prepared 50 items of multiple choice questions for
simple present tense mastery. And three pictures for writing descriptive text test. It has purpose to know how accurate and effective the test before they were used to
collect the data of research and identify whether the test can be given or not. Then, the test items were evaluated to get good items that were tested in the test. It can be
seen from the result of validity and reliability of the tests. After knowing the result of validity and reliability test from try out, it can be seen that the result of try out based
on anates and inter rater showed that the instrument was valid and reliable.
The number of the result of items validity for simple present tense mastery test that was valid 40 items from 50 items. The result of validity test for writing descriptive
text test showed the items were valid. In this research, the writer used picture as
instrument of writing test with describe a particular person, place or thing. Based on the result obtained in the anates of reliability that reliability test in simple present
tense mastery was 0.92 and writing descriptive text was 0.71. It can be concluded that reliability of simple present tense mastery was very high, reliability of writing
descriptive text was high and both of them were reliable
.
Thus, it can be used for test.
At the end of the research, simple present tense mastery test and writing descriptive text test were given to know the correlation among the variables. It was conducted in
SMPN 1 Karya Penggawa Pesisir Barat on October 10
th
, 2016. The test was given the 30 students from 121 populations. The sample of the research was taken from class
VIII A. In collecting the data, it was used objective test that were multiple choices consisted of 40 items test and writing descriptive text test consisted of describing a
particular person, place or thing. In this case, the students descriptive text that during 60 minutes for time allocation.
To analyze the data, SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 16 was used to getting the result of the simple present tense mastery, result of the
writing descriptive text, result of the normality test, result of linearity test and result of the hypothetical test. In this case, non parametric statistics,
rank spearman’s formula by using SPSS Statistical Package for Social the Sciences version 16 was
used to getting the result of the hypothetical testing. It used rank spearman’s formula
because a result of one of the data that is simple present tense mastery test not have a
normal distribution. The purpose of using SPSS of version 16 in this case was for practicality and efficiency in the study.
Based on the results obtained by using SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 16, The result of simple present tense mastery test was conducted
in order to see students’ ability in simple present tense mastery. The minimum score was 30 and the maximum score was 88. There was 1 student who got the score 30, 1
student got the score 88, 18 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 that were 19 who get under average scores and 11 students get a good scores over average score 70 Standar Minimum of Criteria.
Writing descriptive text test was conducted in order to see students’ ability in writing
descriptive text. The minimum score was 65 and the maximum score was 75. There were 2 students who got the score 65, 5 students got the score 75, 4 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 that were 6 students who got score under
average scores and 24 students get a good scores over average score 70 Standar Minimum of Criteria.
The result of the data analysis showed that the value of significant generated Sig p
value
= 0.000 α = 0.05. It means that there was positive correlation between two variables. In this research, the independent variable, simple present tense mastery X
