The aim of this study was: to find out the correlation between students
mastery of simple past tense and students ability in writing narrative text. It used a
correltion research which was conducted of students in MAN 1 Purwokerto in
academic year 2014/2015.The research method was correlation study. The writer
used random sampling to get the sample. The technique of collecting the data was
taken from mastery simple past tense and writing test. After the data collected, the
test result was analyzed by Pearson product moment correlation formula, and then
made conclussion.The result of this study showed that there was a correlation
between students mastery of simple past tense and writing ability in narrative text.
The students ability of simple past tesnse was in good category. The result of
Pearson product moment test proved the correlation between students mastery of
simple past tense and students ability of writing narrative text. The result of
computation showed that r0 was higher that r-table (0.812>0.316) in the level
degree of significance 5%. It means that the correlation of students mastery
simple past tense and writing ability belong to moderate. The research could be
concluded that there was correlation between students mastery of simple past
tense and students ability of writing narrative text.