Electronic Theses and Dissertation

The title of this research is "the correlation between simple past tense and short reading passage". the aims of this study were to know whether there is a correlation between short reading passage and simple past tense. the sample of this study was students of class 11-1 of smpn 2 banda aceh who studied the english subject on the day the research was done. the sample was 30 students in the academic year of 2009/20 i 0. the method used in this study was descriptive quantitative research. the instrument used was test. the test consisted of four types: multiple choice, fill in the blanks, comprehension, and true /false test. there were two short reading texts provided in the test. two type of the texts consisted of nineteen items for fill in the blanks test and ten items for comprehension test. in multiple choice and true/false test consisted of ten items. the data of the test was analyzed by using the fonnula of product moment correlation. the result shows that the students who failed to pass the test of student's mastery in past tense were also poor in mastery short reading passages. therefore, from to the data analysis it shows that there was a significance correlation between simple past tense and short reading passages. it means that the application of a short reading passages in this research can help the students in mastering simple past tense. furthennore, using short reading passages was a good technique to improve students' achievement in mastering simple past tense.