The students’ ability in mastering homonyms at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan

Damayanti, Yusi (2015) The students’ ability in mastering homonyms at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the Students’ Ability in Mastering Homonyms at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. Many students still had difficulties in mastering homonyms especially in homophone ang homograph. Sometimes they were also confuse to different the word homonyms in sentences. The formulation of the problems from the research were how the students’ abilityin mastering homonyms, what the students’ difficulties in mastering homonyms and what the teacher’s effort to overcome the students’ ability in mastering homonyms. The purpose of this research was to describe the students’ ability in mastering homonyms at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan, to find the difficulties of students’ ability in mastering homonyms at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan and to explainthe teacher’s effort planning to overcome the students’ ability in mastering homonyms at grade VIII SMP Negeri 5 Padangsidimpuan. This research employed the qualitative research by using descriptive method. The sources of the data wrere the students at grade VIII especially VIII-3 class. There were 27 students, then the other sources were the English teacher and the head master. The instrument of collecting data was the test, interview and observation. The result was found that the students’ ability in mastering homonyms was still low score categorize with the mean score was 26,67%. The students’ difficulties to mastering homonyms were the first, the students still weak to understand English lesson, it made them to lack English especially in homonyms. the second, the students could not different between homophone and homograph in English. The teacher’s effort to overcome the students’ ability in mastering homonyms were the first, the teacher would try to give practice and test after the meeting. the second, the teacher would replay the vocabularies in the middle of meeting then ask the students. the third, the teacher would correct the students English speaking.

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