THE EFFECT OF STUDYING NARRATIVE TEXT ON MASTERING PAST PARTICIPLE TENSE FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

Abstract: The problem in learning grammar especially in Past Participle tense sometimes it is very difficult in students’ understanding. This study has purpose to know the effectiveness of using narrative in teaching English grammar especially for past participle tense. This study used quantitative method. The sample of this study was the tenth grade students of Syaikh Zainuddin NW Anjani Senior High School. This study was experimental research. So, there were two group of sample. Those are experiment and control group. The population of this study is 24 students. In this research there were 12 students choose as the sample for experiment group and 12 students for control group. To get the data, the research instrument which were developed to collect data. Were objective essay in easy form. The result of the researcher found out that the value of the t-test is 7,4 and The degree of freedom (df) is 22 obtained from (N1+N2) = (20+20-2). The writer uses the degree of significance of 5% and 1%. The value of the degree of significance is 2,07 and 2,82. Comparing the t-test with each value of the degrees of significance, the result of this research was 2,07< 7,4 > 2,82.  The conclusion of the result of this research is Since t-test score is smaller than t-table score obtained from the result of calculation the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected. It means that, there are significant differences in learning past participle tense with narrative text and without narrative text. Also teaching past participle tense by using narrative text is more effective than without narrative text