An analysis on the students’ difficulties in learning question-tags at eleven grade in MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan

Maiya, Solat (2014) An analysis on the students’ difficulties in learning question-tags at eleven grade in MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

Communication is a tool to make a relation with another people, because we are social creatures who can not live without another people. Language is a tool man used to represent ideas in sentences. One of the languages that have a great influence in the world is English. English is one of International language and plays important role in international communication. Learning English is not easy because English has different structures and we known with grammar. Grammar has some components. The one of them is question tags. It is not easy to be learnt by students in senior high school level and they are usually confused in using the question tags. Although some students have learnt grammar completely, they still find difficulty to distinguish the usage of language function. As a result it will lead them to produce many errors in their learning. Many of students commonly make mistake in their learning but it is logically acceptable. The aim of this research is To know the difficulties encountered question tags. And To know the efforts done by the teachers to overcome the difficulties question – tags. The population of the research is the first year students ( XI IPA-3 ) of MAN 1 Padangsidimpuan and the writer takes 37 students of class XI IPA-3 as the samples. The writer takes the samples by using purposive random sampling technique. The writer uses a descriptive analysis technique with visiting the school to do research. Then, the writer gives the test to the students. next, the writer give test to the students and asks them about the difficulty in doing this test by doing interview. By analyzing the test, the teacher finally knows which part of the lesson that has not been understood by students, or may be his technique in teaching should be improved. The result of this research are: the highest error made by students in present perfect tense of error 324,3 % and the average is 64,86%. It means that most of students are still confused question tags in present perfect tense. But the lower also made in present continuous tense with 183,76% or with average 36,75% in average while frequency of error in simple present tense 197,28% with average 39,45% , simple past tense 295,43% with average 51,89% and future tense with 189,17% and average 37,75%. With those frequencies, the teacher should more pay attention in explain these parts.

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