The students' mistakes in past tense at grade viii MTs S Muhammadiyah Paraman Ampalu Pasaman Barat

Sari, Linda (2012) The students' mistakes in past tense at grade viii MTs S Muhammadiyah Paraman Ampalu Pasaman Barat. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The aims of research were to know the students' mistakes in learning past tenseo to know causes of sfudents' mistakes in learning past tense, to know teacher efforts overcoming difficulties of the students in learning past tense at grade VIII MTs S Muhammadiyah Paraman Ampalu Pasaman Barat. This research was done in MTs Muhammadiyah Paraman Ampalu Pasaman Barat. The sources of data were the second years students, the english teacher and head master of Madrasah Tsanawiyah Muhammadiyah Paraman Ampalu Pasaman Barat. The kind of this research instruments of collecting data were observation, interview and test. After the research was done, it can be known that the students' mistakes in past tense in MTs Muhammadiyah Paraman Ampalu Pasaman Barat were to indicate verb and helping verb. The causes of students' mistakes in leaming past tense were: the first the students had poor vocabularies about verb so they felt difficulty when they have been asked to make a sentence in past tense. The second, the students got difficulty in memoring verb, and not be able to change verb I to verb II and to verb III. The thfud, the students also felt difficult to determine the using verb when form of the sentence were negative and interrogative sentence. The fourth, the students did not able to different when the verb is used in the tenses. The teacher's efforts in overcoming students' difficulties in past tense at grade VIII MTsS Muhammadiyah Paraman Ampalu were the English teacher often repeated the lesson especially in determining verb and to be in past tense, the English teacher often gave exercise about past tense. English teacher asked the students to is the vocabularies by heart every meeting, the English teacher often motivated the students to improve students' spirit in leaming especially in learning past tense.

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