@thesis{thesis, author={Agust Satria and BASITAH AINUL and Subroto Gatot}, title ={A STUDY ON THE CORRELATION AMONG STUDENTS’ MASTERY IN USING ADJECTIVE, SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE, AND THEIR DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING ACHIEVEMENT AT SMAN 1 BINTAN TIMUR}, year={2023}, url={http://repositori.umrah.ac.id/5810/}, abstract={The aim of this study was to find out the correlation between students' mastery in using adjective and simple present tense on their achievement in writing descriptive text at SMAN 1 Bintan Timur. The type of research used is quantitative correlation to find the relationship between dependent variable and independent variable. The population in this research is the whole 10th grade students which amounted to 346 students. The sample used was purposive sampling. The sample was the tenth grade MIPA III which amounted to 36 students. The instrument used to obtain data is a multiple choice test and a writing test. The multiple choice test consists of 20 questions for each dependent and for writing test consists of a single written command. All of these tests are used to obtain the results of student mastery related to adjectives, simple present tense, and descriptive text writing achievement. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science version 29 was used to analyzed the data which consisted of normality test, linearity test, and hypothesis test. Based on the data analysis, the results were in accordance with normal, linear and correlated standards. Result of significant value Sig (Pvalue) was <0.001 < ? 0.05. Thus, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted, it means that the alternative hypothesis is accepted. Therefore it can be concluded that there is a relationship between students? mastery in using adjective and simple present tense between the achievement of writing descriptive text at SMAN 1 Bintan Timur.} }