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Arrum Sari, NIM: 1605020013, The Correlation of Simple Present Tense
Mastery, Creative Thinking, and Ability In Writing Descriptive Text at The
Eleventh Grade Students Of SMAN 13kabupaten Tangerang In Academic Year
2020/2021”. Mini Thesis, English Language Education, Faculty of Teacher
Training and Education, Universitas Islam Syekh -Yusuf Tangerang.
In this research there are some problems that the writer found in three of variables
such as students do not understand to use the Simple Present Tense structure,
Students are lack of creativity to create a text and the students not interested to
writing. Beside, the main problem that the writer wanted to discuss is the
importance of simple present tense mastery among the eleventh grade students of
SMAN 13 Kabupaten Tangerang in order to develop the students’ skill, especially
in writing a descriptive text. So in this research, the writer aimed to find out
whether there is a correlation of simple present tense mastery, creative thinking
and ability in writing descriptive text. The population of this study is eleventh
grade students in SMAN 13 Kabupaten Tangerang which total 324 students. The
writer used 77 students as a sample of this research which determined by using a
sample random sampling. In this research, the researcher used quantitative
descriptive method. There are three variables in this research, students’ simple
present tense mastery as first independent variable (Variable X1) , creative
thinking as second independent variables (Variable X2) and descriptive writing
skill as dependent variable (Variable Y), the technique of collecting data was
using tests and questionnaire. The findings of this research reveal that there is a
significant correlation of simple present tense mastery, creative thinking and
ability in writing descriptive text at SMAN 13 Kabupaten Tangerang 2020/2021.
The result of showed Fcount is 5.974 with the value of significant 0.005. The result
of F
count is higher than the Ftable
with level of significant 5% (n= 77, n-k-l) (df=77-2-1= 74) t
table 3.12 at the table of appendix. F
count higher than 3.12 (5.794 > F
table
3.12). It means that Ha accepted and Ho rejected. The result can be concluded that
Fcount > Ftable
which there was a positive significant relation between simple
present tense mastery, creative thinking and writing descriptive text at eleventh
grade of SMAN 13 Kabupaten Tangerang.
Keywords: Creative Thinking, Descriptive text, Simple Present Tense Mastery,
and Writing Skill