AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND-GRADE STUDENTS' ABILITY TO APPLY SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SMAN 7 PADANG

Diska, Lathifah and Welya, Roza (2024) AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND-GRADE STUDENTS' ABILITY TO APPLY SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SMAN 7 PADANG. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe the students’ ability to apply subject-verb agreement in descriptive text at SMA N 7 Padang. This research design was a descriptive one, using quantitative method. The population of this research was the second-grade students at SMA N 7 Padang. Convenience sampling technique was used in this research to collected the data and the sample was class 11 F9 which consist of 35 students. The instrument for collecting the data in this research was a completion test. The researcher gave students 90 minutes to answer the sheet. To make the test reliable, the researcher used split-half technique. The reliability of the test is 0.85 (see Appendix 6). It means that the test is reliable. Then the test is valid in terms of content because the material about descriptive text has been covered in the curriculum and syllabus that has been learned by the students (see Appendix 1). The result showed that there were 20 (57%) students who had high ability and 15 (43%) students had low ability to apply subject-verb agreement in descriptive text. Based on data analysis, the students had high ability to apply subject-verb agreement in nominal sentences in descriptive text. This was supported by the fact that 24 (69%) students who had high ability and 11 (31%) students had low ability. While the students had low ability to apply subject-verb agreement in verbal sentences in descriptive text. This was supported by the fact that 15 (43%) students who had high ability and 20 (57%) students had low ability. Based on the result, it can be concluded that the students’ ability to apply subject-verb agreement in descriptive text is high. Although, the students' ability to apply subject-verb agreement in descriptive text is high but there are still some mistakes made by the students in applying nominal and verbal sentences in descriptive text. The students should to pay more attention to what the teachers’ explanations and do more exercises in applying subject-verb agreement in descriptive text. Other researchers are suggested to study the errors made by the students in applying subject-verb agreement in descriptive text.

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