Students’ difficulties in differentiating noun phrases and noun clauses at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Siabu Kabupaten Mandailing Natal.

Yanti, Rina (2019) Students’ difficulties in differentiating noun phrases and noun clauses at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Siabu Kabupaten Mandailing Natal. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused about students difficulties in differentiating noun phrase and noun clause at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Siabu. The problems of this research were students are difficulties to understanding noun phrase and noun clause, students did not have vocabularies in learning English, students about the different noun phrase and noun clause students did not have motivation in learn English, so when they learn English they felt bored also the English teacher do not have good strategy in teaching grammar. The purpose of this research was to find out the students difficulties in differentiating noun phrase and noun clause and what the reasons made them difficult to differentiating noun phrase and noun clause by used test and interview. This research conducted with descriptive analysis and qualitative approach. The source of the data in this research is the students of SMA Negeri 1 siabu at grade XI. primary data were from the students and the secondary data from the English teacher this research was XI Sains grade of SMA N 1 Siabu. The total of students were 20 the researcher took one class IPA-2. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ understanding about noun phrase and noun clause. And to know students difficulties researcher used interview. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that 66 % its good category, and the most dominant difficult by students were in noun phrase 71 times and noun clause 61 times because the did not understand meaning of sentences that used in the test so it could made them difficult, the students lack vocabulary. It was concluded that there was good category in SMA Negeri 1 Siabu.

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