An Analysis of the First Year Students’ Ability to Write Simple Sentences in Present Continuous Tense at English Department of Bung Hatta University

Khotimah, Husnil and Welya, Roza and Fatimah, Tanjung (2015) An Analysis of the First Year Students’ Ability to Write Simple Sentences in Present Continuous Tense at English Department of Bung Hatta University. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The purpose of This study was to describe the first year students’ Ability of Bung Hatta University to write simple sentence in present continuous tense . this study was limited in four sentence forms; students’ ability to write positive sentence, negative sentence, Yes/no question and then wh-question of simple sentence in present continuous tense. The design of this research was descriptive research. The population of this study was first year students of Bung Hatta University. The total number of the population were 56 students. There are two clases (A and B). The researcher used cluster random sampling to select the sample and the total number of sample were 27 students. To make the test reliable the researcher use inter-rater technique by using two scorers. The result of the test was very high the realibilty of the test was 0.98 ( see Appendix). The test was valid in term of content validity, same syllabus, material and same allocation time. Generally, the result of analyzing the data showed that the ablity of the first year students of Bung Hatta University to write simple sentence in present continuous tense was moderate It could be seen that 3.45% (see Appendix 11), students have high ability, 86.21 have moderate ability and 10.34% have low ability. in detail the presentages of each of form sentence were; 55.7% (see Appendix 13) students have moderate ability to write positive form simple sentence in present continuous tense, 89.66% (see Appendix 17) students have moderate ability to write negative form simple sentences in present continuous tense, 44.83% ( see Appendix 20) students have moderate ability to write yes/no question form simple sentence in present continuous tense, 65.51% (see Appendix 23) students have moderate ability to write wh-question form simple sentence in present continuous tense. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the ability of the first year students at English Department of Bung Hatta University to write simple sentence in present continuous tense. In line with this conclusion, the lecturers are suggested to give more explanation and exercises to the students improve their ability to write simple sentences in present continuous tense and the students are also suggested to learn and more exercises to improve their ability to write simple sentences in present continuous tense

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