AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN WRITING SIMPLE SENTENCES AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

ADRI, YESI and Ernati, Ernati and Lisa, Tavriyanti (2017) AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN WRITING SIMPLE SENTENCES AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to describe the third year students’ problems in writing simple sentence at English Departmen of Bung Hatta University. Descriptive method was used as the design of this research. The number of population members was 53 students. The researcher used total sampling technique to select the sample and the total number of sample members was 53 students. The instrument used to get the data was writing test. The students were asked to write 6 sentences in affirmative form, 6 sentences in negative form, 6 sentences in yes/no question form, 6 sentences in information question form. It was found that the reliability index of the test was very high (0.96) . It means that the test was reliable. Then the test was valid in terms of content validity. From the result of the research, generally the third year students at English Department of Bung Hatta University had problem in writing simple sentence. They were problems in affirmative, negative, yes/no questions, information questions. Among those problems, the most problems that the students faced was problem in writing information questions. It was supported by the fact that ( 34.13%) had problem in writing information question. In writing information question, the most problem was problem in mechanic (65.36%) especially in capitalization ( 49.66%). Referring to the result of the research, the researcher suggests the lecturers to give more exercises and pay attention to the students’ problems in writing information questions. The researcher suggests the third year students to minimize their problems in writing information question and pay attention to the use of capital letters. Then, further researchers are expected to find and analyze the factors which cause the students’ problems in writing simple sentence.

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