THE ABILITY OF THE 2015/2016 3
RDYEAR
STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 3 BINJAI
IN USING ENGLISH TENSES
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Study Program : English
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ABSTRACT
ABSTRAK
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmaanirrahim.
First of all, I would like to thank to Almighty God, Allah SWT for blessing
and giving me health, strength, and ease to finish this paper as one of the
requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English Department Faculty of
Cultural Studies, University of North Sumatera.
Then I would like to express a big gratitude, appreciation, and love to the
dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies, Dr. SyahronLubis, M.A. and the head of
Diploma III English Study Program, Dr. Matius C.A.Sembiring, M.A who give
me their time and knowledge about doing this paper. Then I would like to express
my special gratitude to my supervisor Dr. Matius C.A.Sembiring, M.A for her
availability, spirit, time,guidance, and advice to correct the process of writting this
paper. And my sincere thank to my reader Drs. Siamir Marulafau, M.Hum. For
his time, knowledge and suggestion. I would also like to say a deep gratitude to all
of the lecturers in English Diploma Study Program for giving me many
knowledges, skills, and abilities.
I would like to say thank to my best friends, Gilang Tirta Arya,
Rahmat Fuad Siregar, Yogi Julian Pratama, Ferdinand Willhart Siagian,
Kaka Hanafiah, Jefry Andreas, Rico Syahputra, Bobby Loy, Onward Fellix,
Budi Halim Lubis, Arfie Dibyo, Zulfachri Abdilla, Shella Novianti, Lara
Rizqy Yoriza, Alfi Navais, Nina Fitriani, Lisha Haris, and Yuni Asyifah
Thank you for your fully support, cares, good times, jokes, availabilityand other
things that help me to finish this paper. Thank you for the nice friendship during
our study. Indeed, the great friends are hard to find, hard to leave, and difficult to
forget,I wish our friendship will be lasting hold.
I would like to thank to RebelMoto Brotherhood, thank you for your
support
I would like to thank to Total Art, thank you for your care.
I would like to thank to all of SOLIDAS friends, thank you for your
good time during my study.
Medan, September 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ………
Pages The Background of Writing ….……… The Problems ……… The Scopes ofWriting ….……….……… The Purposes of Writing ………
THE ABILITY OF THE STUDENTS ……… Tense and time ... Kinds of testing ... Validity ... Reliability ... Score calculation ...
