An analysis on the students’ ability in changing active to passive voice at grade VIII SMP Negeri 11 Padangsidimpuan

Damanik, Chairani (2014) An analysis on the students’ ability in changing active to passive voice at grade VIII SMP Negeri 11 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The aims of research were to know the ability of the students in changing active to passive voice at grade VIII SMP Negeri 11 Padangsidimpuan, the difficulties of students in changing active to passive voice at grade VIII SMP Negeri 11 Padangsidimpuan and the efforts of English teacher in overcoming the difficulties at grade VIII SMP Negeri 11 Padangsidimpuan in changing active to passive voice. The research was conducted with descriptive analysis and qualitative approach. There were 24 students from 119 students at grade VIII students’ in SMP Negeri 11 Padangsidimpuan. In collecting data, the research used the instrument of the research by interview and test for students, the test consist of 20 items, interview for the teacher and observation the school. After doing the research to the students of grade VIII SMP Negeri 11 Padangsidimpuan, researcher found that the ability of the Grade VIII SMP Negeri 11 Padangsidimpuan in changing active to passive voice was low (38.95). The students were difficult in changing the sentence especially in change active into passive voice in Present Perfect Tense. Some of students had poor vocabularies so they felt difficult when they were asked to change the verb into regular and irregular verb in passive voice. Then, the students get confused to use the formula of tense and to use helping verb or to be in active and passive voice. The efforts that will be done by the English teacher to overcoming the students’ difficulties of the ability in forming active and passive voice at Grade VII SMP Negeri 11 Padangsidimpuan: the English teacher will often repeats the lesson and give more examples that related with the experiences of students; the English teacher will order the students to bring dictionary; before the teacher gave the new lesson, the teacher will ask the late students to write the English words and then they might get into the class and join the lesson.

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