Submitted to the English Education Program of Tarbiyah Faculty of State Islamic Institute of Parepare in partial fulfillment of the requirements. Title of Thesis: The students' writing skills on five basic tenses in the second grade of SMAN 2 Pairs. Ismail Latief.M.M, as second consultant, also as the writer's academic advisor who is willing to spend her time to give corrections and suggestions even motivations to do this thesis and always gives full and beautiful attention to all her students. The researcher really appreciates everything. of all efforts and hard work recently.
Skripsi title: The student's writing skills in five basic tenses in the second grade in SMAN 2 Parepare. The pupils' writing of five basic tenses in the second grade of SMAN 2 Parepare. (Supervised by Hj. Nurhamdah and Ismail Latief). It aimed to know how are students' writing skills in using five basic forms.
The result in this research there was of the students' understanding of about five basic tenses. In addition, the result of the test shows that the students write in the use of five basic tenses which were still fair category.
INTRODUCTION
- Background
- Research Question
- Objective Of The Research
- Significance of the research
The aim of teaching and learning English is to equip students with English skills. The researcher takes the topic because in order to master the four basic skills above, the students need to have a good foundation about the English language. So the paradigm will make students more boring and uninteresting to study about tenses, and ultimately most students will have no knowledge about tenses.
The purpose of the research is to find out about the students' ability to use five basic times in second grade students in SMAN 2 Parepare. The English teachers in varying their teaching model in the class and motivate the students to improve their grammar mastery, especially tenses, so that they will be interested and enthusiasm to learn English. For the students, the research is used to motivate the students to be able to improve their grammar especially in five basic forms and help the students to learn English easily.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Some Pertinent Ideas
Kroma argues that writing is a kind of activity where the writer expresses all the ideas in his mind in the paper (print) from words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs and from paragraphs to essay and also writing is a process of creating an idea and express the meaning in written form. Explanation is writing text that aims to explain the processes to explain the processes involved in the formation of the workings of natural or socio-cultural phenomena. Exposition (analytical) is writing text to persuade the reader to the listener that there is something to the matter.
Unity, the writing is considered to have good unity if it has the same main ideas and the sentences obtained in it that develop that idea, the main ideas are stated in the topic sentence. General to specific, this type of organization is often used when writing explanatory texts. This type is usually known as deductive ordering. The supporting sentence explains the general idea of the topic sentence in the first sentence. From general to particular, it starts with generalization in the last sentence, but slightly in a different word.
Every sentence in the writing is automatically related to the times, the description of the narration.”17. 24 Fuad Mas'ud, Essential of English Grammar a Practical Guide, (Yogyakarta: BPFE-Yogyakarta, 2010, 3rd edition), p. Table 2.2 The combination of tense and event will produce sixteen tenses, as you can see in the table below: Simple present is used to say that something was true in the past, is true in the present and will be true in the future.
The simple past tense is used to talk about activities or situations that started and ended in the past e.g. g:, yesterday, last night, two days ago, in 1990 etc).29. The simple future tense is used to express an action that will be performed in the future. It is used to state an event or action that will take place in the future and the adverbs tonight or tomorrow must be mentioned.
The present perfect describes events that happened in the past that have something to do with the present, but the time is not clearly known. Can also be used to describe a job or event that is occurring in the present and has been completed. It is used to declare an event or action that took place in the past and is still ongoing to this day.
Previous Research Findings
In her research, Musdalifah indicated the effectiveness of using a love story game to teach the formulation of tenses in the first year students of SMA Negeri 7 Pinrang. Based on the data, the research found that there are significant differences between the experimental class taught with games as treatment and the control class taught without the game the results of the analysis of the independent sample t-test teaching the formulation of tenses through love story games for the first year student SMAN 7 Pin rank. 33 Irmawanti » Part of the talking card in teaching tenses for upper secondary school students (Unpublished Skripsi, Parepare: STAIN Parepare, 2015), p. 34 A.Abd.Azis.Ridwan, "Empowering the Students' Tenses Mastery by Using Mating Tenses Technique for the Second Grade of Boarding School Al Wahid Panca Lautang (Unpublished Skripsi, Parepare: STAIN Parepare, 2015), p.
From the point of view of some research above, it can be found that there are many ways to improve the students' time management like us; the use of media, method and the other. The researcher gave the one of ways to improve the students' time management through gaming media. The researcher hopes that the use of gaming media is effective in teaching tenses to the student of SMA Negeri 7 Pinrang.
Conceptual Framework
Variable and Operational Definition
METHODOLOGY OF THE RESEARCH
- Research Design
- Location and Duration of the Research
- Population and Sample
- Instrument of Research
- Procedure of Collecting Data
- Technique of Data Analysis
The research aimed to reveal and describe the students' writing of five basic tenses in the second year of SMAN 2Parepare. Students' ability in these is still low and they are still confused in changing sentences. Based on the frequency of correct answers, most of the students confuse and made mistakes in simple past, present perfect and simple continuous tenses.
Most of the students made mistakes in simple past and simple future forms. As illustrated4.3 The result of the students' writing sentence showed that there were students classified in very good score and there are some students'. The following is the calculation process to find the average score based on the calculation of students' scores.
In this research, the writing test was to get to know the students who write five basic tenses. This was supported by frequency and the rate percentage of the results of the students' test score. Based on the description and explanation of finding in the previous section that the students' writing of five basic tenses is still fair category.
Students' writing of five basic tenses of SMAN 2 Pair pairs in the second grade was very satisfactory. The finding showed that after the student took the test, the average score was 61.7, this means that the students' understanding was in a reasonable category at times. For the students, don't give up and always spirit and enjoy learning English especially grammar.
Empowering students' mastery of tenses using the technique of pairing tenses for the second grade of Al Wahid Panca Lautang boarding school.
FINDING AND DISCUSSION
FINDING
The research finding is finding the answer to the research question in the previous chapter. The finding would answer the problem statement in the research mentioned in the first part. Because there were fifteen students who got fair results with a percentage of 43.3% although, as can be seen, there were seven students with a good result with a percentage of 29.17%, and four students got very good results with a percentage of 16% and weak. the result received nine students with a percentage of 11.53%. classification of points.
In simple past tenses, students have the ability to understand or modify sentences that are very low. And they make many mistakes in being and the verb is the same and not changed to past tense. In simple present continuous tenses from the frequency of their answers, it is enough to understand the formula of the present continuous tenses.
It's just that some of them still don't understand and are fooled by the sentence given and forget to add to the sentence change. Almost the same as simple past tenses, in the present perfect tenses the percentage of their correct answers can be seen. In the simple present tense, students have no difficulty changing sentences into positive, negative and interrogative sentences.
While when using simple continuous tenses only a few do not understand it.
Discussion
This means that most of the 2nd year students of SMAN 2 Parepare still confused the form of five basic tenses and how to change the sentence of five basic forms. This chapter consists of two sections; the first section deals with the conclusion of the research findings and the second section deals with suggestions. A teacher of English in Senior High School should be creative and select interesting strategy and media in the teaching learning process. The teacher should be able to use a strategy in teaching learning that suits the students' condition, so that the students are not bored in the classroom following the material in the learning.
The English teachers must give a high motivation to the students in learning English so that they are able to improve their English proficiency. Improving students' writing ability through five basic tenses in the fourth semester of English program for STAIN Parepare. Enhancing students' ability to write descriptive text through a healthy spread game." Unpublished Skripsi : IAIN Walisongo.
The Effectiveness of Using Love Story Games to Teach Formulation to First Year Students of SMAN 7 Pinrang”.
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Conclusion
Suggestion
