The students’ ability in mastering reported speech at grade VIII SMP N 4 Sipirok

Hasibuan, Nurhamimah (2017) The students’ ability in mastering reported speech at grade VIII SMP N 4 Sipirok. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discusses about students’ ability in mastering reported speech. The students of SMP N 4 Sipirok have specifics problems about reported speech they are auxiliary verb, it is difficult to remember and how to use in sentences matter. Then, in the tenses, they get difficult to change between V1 to V2 between V2 to V3 or between other different. For memorizing part, the students are low because reading and writing are different, too. Based on the above explanation, the researcher know that there are many factors related to the students’ ability in writing. But, here, the researcher only focuses to find out the ability based on test, not the factor that because the students’ problems. So that, the researcher formulates the problem on specific questions as follow: “How is the students’ ability in mastering reported speech at grade VIII SMP Negeri 4 Sipirok?”. This research intends to know the description of students’ ability in mastering reported speech. The method of the reseach by using descriptive kuantitatif. The instrument is use the test. The type of test is multiple choice test A, B, C, and D. The students are orders to choose the best answer from the multiple choice. Then, the sample of researh is all of the population, they are at grade VIII SMP N 4 Sipirok. The total of samples are 40 students. They are 2 classes, class A and B. The last, to analyze the data, the researcher is mean score to find out the students’ ability category and Z formula is for finding the hypothesis testing to know whether the hypothesis is accepted or not. After calculating the data to show the description of the data is found that the students’ ability in mastering reported speech at grade VIII SMP N 4 Sipirok is categorized into very high category. It is 88.5 score. Then, The hypothesis which “The students’ ability in mastering reported speech at grade VIII SMP N 4 Sipirok is up to enough score category”. From the result of the hypothesis testing, the researcher finds that the hypothesis is unaccepted. It can be proved from Zcount = 5 > Ztable = 3.12 by level of significant 0.05 or 5 %. So, from the result above, the researcher concludes that the hypothesis is unaccepted. Therefore, the students’ ability in mastering reported speech at grade VIII SMP N 4 Sipirok are very high category.

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