An analysis on students’ ability to identify complex sentences in descriptive text at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Nagasaribu

Simamora, Nelpi (2014) An analysis on students’ ability to identify complex sentences in descriptive text at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Nagasaribu. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The problems were talking about the students’ ability to identify complex sentences in descriptive text at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Nagasaribu, the students’ difficulties to identify complex sentences in descriptive text at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Nagasaribu, the English teacher effort in overcoming students’ difficulties to identify complex sentences in descriptive text at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Nagasaribu, and media in English teacher in teaching identify complex sentences in descriptive text at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Nagasaribu. The kind of this research was qualitative research by using descriptive method. The sources of the research were 36 students at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Nagasaribu.The instruments of collecting data were observation, interview, and test. The researcher analyzed the result of the test with mean score the students’ ability to identify complex sentences in descriptive text at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Nagasaribu can be categorized into good category (61,25%). After the research was done, it could be known the students’ difficulties to identify complex sentences in descriptive text were the students were still low to comprehend the basic of English subject, some of them did not know to put the relative pronoun in the sentences, the students’ had poor vocabularies, the students’ felt difficult to identify the dependent clause and independent clause in a sentences. The effort was done by the English teacher to overcoming the students’ difficulties were: the English teachers should give the lesson and more examples in the study, the difficulties of students about vocabularies, the teacher instructed them to make vocabularies from one of alphabet and the students tried to memorize it, then the English teachers instructed to them to drill identify complex sentences by themselves at home. Media the English teacher in teaching identify complex sentences was Mediatama, as students’ book in learning English at Madrasah Aliyah Nagasaribu.

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