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AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING REGULAR VERB AND IRREGULAR VERB IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 MUARO
BUNGO
Siti Hadijah*), Siska, S.S,M.Pd**), DonaAlicia, M.Pd***)
*)ProgramStudiPendidikanBahasaInggris, STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat [email protected]
**)StafPengajar Program StudiBahasaInggris, STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat [email protected]
***)StafPengajar Program StudiBahasaInggris, STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat [email protected]
ABSTRACT
This research was motivated by how students’ ability in using regular verb and irregular verb in writing narrative text at SMA N 2 Muaro Bungo. The purpose of this research was to see how the students’ ability in using regular verb and irregular verb in writing narrative text. this research is done by using descriptive research in SMA N 2 Muaro Bungo by using random sampling. Meanwhile, to find out the number of sample the researcher took 10% of the total sample. Total sample of this research are 16 students’. In this research the researcher used the document as an instrument of analysis. This research has shown that the students’ ability used regular and irregular verb is low it can be seen from the percentage the correct and incorrect form. Percentage incorrect in using regular verb reached 73,5% and 26% correct. Percentage incorrect in using irregular verb reached 66,5% and 33,5% correct in using irregular verb.
Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh bagaimana kemampuan siswa dalam menggunakan kata kerja beraturan dan tidak beraturan dalam menulis narrative teks di SMA N 2 Muara Bungo.
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat bagaimana kemampuan siswa dalam menggunakan kata kerja beraturan dan tidak beraturan dalam menulis teks narrative. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan penelitian descriptive di SMA N 2 Muara Bungo dengan menggunakan random sampling kemudian untuk mengetahui jumlah sampel peneliti mengambil 10% dari total sampel sehingga total sampel penelitian ini adalah 16 orang siswa. Dalam penelitian ini peneliti menggunakan dokumen analisis sebagai instrument. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa kemampuan siswa lemah dalam menggunakan kata kerja beraturan dan tidak beraturan ini terlihat dari angka persentase correct dan incorrect. Persentase incorrect dalam menggunakan kata kerja beraturan mencapai 73,5% dan 26,5% percentase correct. Persentase incorrect dalam menggunakan kata kerja tak beraturan 66,5% dan 33,5% persentase correct dalam menggunakan kata kerja tak beraturan.
Key Word: Regular verb, Irregular verb, Narrative text, Analysis
INTRODUCTION
Grammar is the sound and sound patterns; it is the basic units of meaning such as words, and the rules to combine them to form new sentences constitute the grammar
of language. There are several parts in grammatical one of them is a verb. Verbs are important part in grammar. Verbs are subdivided into two groups, regular verb and irregular verbs. Jhon E. ( 2000,P.124) states that a regular verb is one that forms its past
2 and past participle by adding –d or –ed to the infinitive form. Teschner (2000,P.47) in regular the preterit is formed with the suffix –ed: work- worked, if the base ends e, -dis simply added to it: hone-honed. Where the base ends in consonant plus y , the y changes to I before the –edis added; deny- denied.
Where the base ends in a vowel plus y, the y is retained: alloy- alloyed. The role for doubling the final consonant in regular weak verbs for the preterits is the same as the rule for doubling in the present participle.
Regular and irregular verb can be found in narrative text. According to McQuilan (2008, P.85) a narrative text is a story that told in language and converted into language sign. Its mean that the readers will read the text that has been converted into a language, then Bal (2009, P.1) proposes that a narrative text is a text in which an agent or subject conveys to an address („tells‟ the reader) a story in particular medium, such a language, imagery, sound, buildings, or combination thereof. Its mean that the narrative is a story tells or explain to reader about particular that have in the story.
Most of the students‟ have less understood in using regular and irregular verb in making narrative text. Dictionaries are perhaps the most valuable tool one can use in distinguishing between regular and irregular verb. The researcher also found students‟ mistakes in writing narrative text such as they write the past of regular verb stop became stopped and plan become planed. Nunan (2003,P.88) writing is the mental work of inventing ideas, thinking about how to express them, and organizing them into statements and paragraph that will be clear. The students‟ have reason why English was difficult subject it because English was considered a difficult things to be learned and they also very rarely used dictionary to learn as well as the scarcity of grammar introduce in detail from the teacher.
Based on the background above it can be concluded that the problem in this study is students‟ ability using regular and irregular verb. In supporting this research, the researcher reviews the related finding which discussed the some problem with this
research there was reviewed from a research who written by Roselina Sitepu (2013). The title of this research is “An error analysis of regular and irregular verbs in writing recount, narrative, procedure and descriptive text by the tenth grade students at SMA Negeri 2 Tanjungbalai”. this research deals with an error analysis. The objectives of the study are to identify and classify the kinds of regular and irregular verbs error find in recount, narrative, procedure, and descriptive, writing by the tenth grade students‟ at SMA Negeri 2 Tanjung Balai. To know the most dominant text getting regular and irregular verb error by the tenth grade students‟ at SMA 2 Tanjung Balai.
Concerned from related finding above, the research was different. The researcher focuses in students‟ ability regular and irregular verb in writing narrative text.
Purpose of this research is to know students‟ ability in using regular and irregular verb in writing narrative text at senior high school 2 Muara Bungo.
RESEARCH METHOD
This research was descriptive research According to Gay and Airasian (2000, P.275) stated that descriptive research determined and describe the way things are.
They also stated that descriptive research was useful for investigating a variety of educational problems and issues.
The population of this researcher was the eleven grades at SMA N 2 Muaro Bungo in academic years 2015/2016. There were five classes at eleven grades. The researcher took the 16 students‟ from five classes. The researcher would use random sampling as a technique to choose sample.
According to Gay and Airasian (2011, P.144) simple random sampling is the process of selecting a sample in such a way that all individuals in the defined population have an equals and independent chance of selection for the sample. In collecting the data the researcher used document analysis as a instrument. After geting the data, the researcher constructed document analysis in making list of regular and irregular verb in
3 narrative text. the researcher analyzed the data used procedure of analysis based on Ari et al (2010,P.379) the following procedure are: Coding the data, statistical analysis using formula offered by ( Riduwan 2006:
89) the description of the formula:
P = 𝐹
𝑁 x 100%
Where:
P = Percentage of students ability on using Regular and Irregular Verb
F = Frequency of students using Regular and Irregular Verb
N = Total of item
Interpreting the result and reporting the finding.
RESEARCH FINDING
The researcher continued to analyze after conducted the documents obtained from students‟ writing narrative text, which consist, of 16 students‟. The researcher found findings after conducting the research and analyzing the data. The findings of the research are relevant to research question
“How is the students‟ ability in using regular and irregular verb.”
Based on the result of this research, the answer of the research question about students‟ ability using regular and irregular verb in writing narrative text is low. It can be found in the following explanation. The first is regular verb, the finding of this type can be found in their percentages. The correct percentages 26,5% and incorrect percentages 73,5% . It means that students‟
ability on using regular verb is low because incorrect percentages bigger than correct.
The second is irregular verb, the finding of this type can be found in their percentages the correct percentages 33,5% and incorrect percentages 66,5%. Its mean that student‟s ability in using irregular verb is low because incorrect percentages bigger than correct.
CONCLUSION
In this research the researcher want to find students ability on using regular verb and irregular verb in writing narrative text at senior high school 2 Muara Bungo eleven grade academic years 2015/2016. Beside that the researcher uses random sampling technique in selecting sample. The total of sample was 16 students. In getting the data the researcher document analysis as an instrument. Based on the result of the research, the researcher concluded that the most of students‟ ability on using regular and irregular verb especially simple past tense in narrative text is low. It can be proven by their percentages. The percentages show that students‟ ability was low because the percentage of incorrect is bigger than correct.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The researcher would like to exprees my sincere gratitude to my first advisor Siska, S.S, M.Pd for her patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowladge, her guidance helped him in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. The researcher‟s sincere thanks also goes to the second advisor Dona Alicia M.Pd for the continuos supposrt of this research, for her guidance, advice, suggestion and support in finishing this thesis.
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