The ability of the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan in mastering present continuous tense

Fauziah, Ira (2023) The ability of the eight grade students of SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan in mastering present continuous tense. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The research described about ability in mastering present continuous tense. Because that the most of students lack interesting in using present continuous tense, lack of comprehention and composition, motivation is low that they are idle in practicing. In reality there are many students do not review their studies, then studnets often did not do their homework, the aims of this research to describe about students’ ability in present continuous tense. Researcher identify many problemsthat occur, tis research to find out how ability, the difficulties and the effort of VIII grade students of SMP Negeri 8 Padangsidimpuan in masetring present continuous tense, the research was conducted by mix method. The population of the research was the students of grade VIII Padangsidimpuan. While, the sample of the research was grade VIII- 2. Then there were to instruments in collecting data; test and interviews. Data are processed and analyzed with descriptive analysis and quantitative process. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the interviews from the students and the English teacher and a quantitative process was used to analyze students' means score after doing the test, it was multiple choice, after doing the research to the students of grade VIII-2 SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan, it could be concluded that the ability of the grade VIII students of SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan in mastering present continuous tense is categorized into "good" category. After interviewing the students of grade VIII-2 of SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan the researcher concluded that the difficulties of students is negative sentence. And the effort of the teacher are give more example about present continuous tense, repeat the lesson and read more about present continuous tense.

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