The ability of students at English Education Department (TBI-1) in analyzing compound nouns and compound adjectives

Bulan, Nondang Sari (2014) The ability of students at English Education Department (TBI-1) in analyzing compound nouns and compound adjectives. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The problem of the research was that not all of students TBI-1 at second semester academic year 2013/2014 have much basic knowledge about English. Then, some of students chose English Education Department because they think that English Education Department has many vacancies for job. In addition, when they were studying they just expect knowledge from lecturer. If lecturer commanded them to look for knowledge out lecturing they were less enthusiastic. In addition, lecturer of vocabulary said that students TBI were less interest and enthusiastic studying vocabulary. It could be proven by their result of final examination. Most of students got score 62 that categorized into low score. This research was designed by qualitative research and the method used descriptive method. The source of the data was taken by purposive sampling. This data would be collected from students of TBI-1 IAIN Padangsidimpuan at the second semester academic years 2013/2014. The students were 33 students. In addition, collecting of data was done by doing observation to the class TBI-1, did interview to the students and lecturer of vocabulary, and giving test about analyzing compound nouns and compound adjectives. Based on the result of research, researcher found that the ability of students at English Education department (TBI-1) in analyzing compound nouns and compound were high categories. The students’ score were 67.6. In this case, the students faced difficulties in analyzing compound nouns and compound adjectives. Then, the lecturer’s efforts overcame students’ difficulties in analyzing compound nouns and compound adjectives were she explained definitions about it firstly. Then, she gave some examples. After that, she gave exercise about it. Finally, she gave a technique to memorize new vocabularies.

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