Abstract:
The aims of this research was to describe the correlation between
students‟ simple present tense mastery and their ability in writing
descriptive text. This research used correlation method that used an
analysis correlation product moment (r) to know the correlation between
students‟ simple present tense mastery and their ability in writing
descriptive text. The instrument that used in this research was test to find
out the level of students‟ simple present tense mastery and their ability in
writing descriptive text by asked for students to write descriptive text at
least 70 words about their favorite person, place or thing. The population
of this reearch was the tenth grade students of SMAN 2 Lamba-Leda
numbered 115 students which consits of four classes. The number of
sample were 20 students of class X science. The result of this research
showed that there was no correlation between students‟ simple present
tense mastery and their ability in writing descriptive text, this fact can be
seen the result of rcount < rtable (0,1958 < 0,3783).
