The Correlation Between the Mastery of Simple Present Tense and Descriptive Text Comprehension Among the Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 1 Taebenu in Academic Year 2024/2025
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This study is about the correlation between the mastery of Simple Present Tense and Descriptive Text comprehension among the tenth-grade students of SMAN 1 Taebenu. The aims of this study are: (1) to know whether there is a correlation between the mastery of Simple Present Tense and Descriptive Text comprehension among the students of SMAN 1 Taebenu in Academic Year of 2024/2025 (2) to know whether the correlation between the mastery of Simple Present Tense and Descriptive Text comprehension among the tenth-grade students of SMAN 1 Taebenu is positive and significant. This research is descriptive quantitative research. The researcher used multiple choice tests as the instrument of this research. For the data analysis technique, the researcher used Correlation Product Moment with SPSS Version 24 for Windows. The correlation between the Mastery of Simple Present Tense and Descriptive Text Comprehension was 0.560. It showed a positive effect. The significant value was 0.001. It was lower than 0.05. The results of the analysis provide evidence that the students’ Mastery of Simple Present Tense had a positive and significant correlation to the students’ Descriptive Text Comprehension.