The ability of students to understand personal references in paragraphs at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

Harahap, Siti Asrina (2014) The ability of students to understand personal references in paragraphs at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The aims of the research were to know the ability of students to understand personal references in paragraphs, to find out the difficulties of grade VIII students of SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan and to know the English teacher’ efforts done in overcoming students’ difficulties to understand personal references in paragraphs. The research was conducted with descriptive analysis and qualitative approach. There were 24 students as respondent of the research at grade VIII-2 in SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. There were 3 instruments in collecting data: test, interview, and observation. Data was processed and analyzed with qualitative process. Based on the result of research, researcher found that the ability of students at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan to understand personal references in paragraphs was enough category (62.29%). It can be classification from the score of the students, they were23 students got very weak categories ( 8.33 %), 2 students got weak categories (8.33%) 4 students got enough categories (16.66%), 15 students got good categories (62.5%), and the last is 1 students got good categories (4.16%). Next, there were the students’ difficulties of grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan to understand personal references in paragraphs are: student felt difficult to determine the subject, object, and possessive, and also they were confused to differentiate the using of object and possessive.

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