A study on the students’ ability in forming passive voice at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Kotanopan

Lubis, Sarifah (2012) A study on the students’ ability in forming passive voice at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Kotanopan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The formulations of the problems were talking about the students’ ability in forming passive voice at grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Kotanpan and the difficulties of grade XI students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotanopan and what are English teachers’ efforts in overcoming students’ difficulties in forming passive voice. The research was conducted with descriptive analysis and qualitative approach. There were 40 students as sample of analytical unit from 198 students of grade XI students of SMA Negeri 1 Kotanopan. There were 3 instruments in collecting data: test, interview, and observation. Data was processed and analyzed with qualitative process. Based on the result of research, researcher found that the students’ ability in forming passive voice at Grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Kotanopan was high category (64,375%) and those were the students’ difficulties of grade XI SMA Negeri 1 Kotanopan in forming Passive voice: The students confuse to determine the helping verb of the sentences, especially in tenses. Some of them didn’t know what verb that will they use in passive voice sentence, The students had poor vocabularies so they felt difficult when they have been asked to make the passive voice sentences. The students forgot add “being, be and been” in present continuous tense, future tense and present perfect tense. The efforts done by English teacher to overcome the students’ difficulties were The English teachers often repeat the lesson and give more examples which example were near or familiar with their life and English teacher invited the students one by one write their example in the blackboard. Before the English teacher gave the new lesson, first the English teacher gave chance or time students to something left or not clears about the lesson. The English teacher invite the students to learn by heart about verb and auxiliary verb. The English teacher gave task for students.

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