The difficulties in differentiating countable and uncountable nouns at VII grade students of MTs. YPKS Padangsidimpuan

Lubis, Lian Fitriyadi (2024) The difficulties in differentiating countable and uncountable nouns at VII grade students of MTs. YPKS Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find the difficulties that students usually face in learning countable and uncountable nouns and to know the efforts done by English teacher to decrease the students’ difficulties in learning countable and uncountable nouns. This research is qualitative research that focus only on data collection that was carried out using test, and interview. After conducting research, the results of the test showed that there were many students who got bad scores and each question had been marked by the researcher on which part of the question was difficult for the students. After that, the researcher conducted interviews to deepen data collection on students and English teachers.it can be seen that the students' difficulties in working on these questions about the difficulties in differentiating countable and uncountable nouns in class VII grade students of MTs.YPKS Padangsidimpuan means students lack the knowledge to determine whether a noun is countable or uncountable noun then from these results it can be seen that students lack the knowledge to determine countable nouns from uncountable nouns, in fact there are still many students who are still confused about the models and forms of countable and uncountable objects so that they can be said to be countable objects versus uncountable objects. Efforts made by English teachers to reduce students' difficulties in differentiating countable and uncountable nouns English teachers often repeat lessons at every meeting before starting their new material and always provide motivation to students to be more active in studying English, especially regarding countable and uncountable nouns, another effort made by English teachers is asking students to tell five vocabulary items for countable and uncountable objects. Before the teaching and learning process begins, another effort made by English teachers is to often write down countable nouns with uncountable nouns and ask several students to determine which objects are countable and which are uncountable objects while the other students listen to the answers. from students appointed by the English teacher is usually done when the teaching and learning process is about to end.

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