AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN UNDERSTANDING PAST PERFECT TENSE AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

Suminta, Dwifatma Rakhmat and Welya, Roza and Lisa, Tavriyanti (2016) AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN UNDERSTANDING PAST PERFECT TENSE AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The objective of this research was to know the problems of the third year student at English Department of Bung Hatta University in understanding past perfect tense. The design of this research was descriptive. The population of this research was the third year English Department students of Bung Hatta University, academic year 2015/2016. The total number of the population member was 46. They were distributed into two classes, class A (26 students) and class B (20 students). The researcher used cluster random sampling to select the sample, class A was the class for try out test class, and class B was the class for real test class. It means the students in class B were the sample of the research. To make test became reliable, the researcher used split-half method. The result of the test was reliable. It is supported by the fact that the result of coefficient correlation was .96 (see Appendix 6). It was categorized as very high correlation. Then, the test was valid in term of content validity because it had covered all material which students had learnt. The data were gathered by grammar test in the form of multiple choice given to the students. The researcher limited his research in understanding past perfect tense in using affirmative, negative and interrogative form. The researcher described the problems found by the students (students’ score) in answering the questions. From the result of the research, the researcher found out 65% students at English Department of Bung Hatta University in academic year 2015/2016 had problem in understanding past perfect tense. The researcher also found 35% students had no problem (see Appendix 17). Based on the result above the teachers are suggested to give more contextual examples and explanation about past perfect tense. So, the students are going to be familiar with past perfect tense and are going to practice past perfect tense in daily activity too. The students are suggested to do lot of practice to increase understanding past perfect tense. And to the next researcher, it is suggested to study about some factors that cause the students’ problems in understanding past perfect tense such as differentiate between past perfect tense and past tense

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