An Analysis of the Eighth Grade Students’ Ablity to Write Present Continous Simple Sentences at SMPN 4 Painan Pesisir Selatan

Erdawati, Erdawati and Fatimah, Tanjung and Lailatul, Husna (2015) An Analysis of the Eighth Grade Students’ Ablity to Write Present Continous Simple Sentences at SMPN 4 Painan Pesisir Selatan. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research was aimed to know the ability of the eighth grade students’ ability to write present continous simple sentence on various form of sentences, positive sentence , negative , and interrogative sentence , The design of this research was descriptive. The number of sample in this research was 28 students. The researcher used cluster random sampling technique in taking the sample. In collecting the data, the researcher used writing sentence test. In this test the students was asked to make sentences. In analyzing the data based on the result of writing test, the researcher presented raw scores, then calculated the students’ scores, classified the students’ ability into high, moderate and low ability in writing simple sentence. The result of this research showed that in general the ability of eighth grade students SMPN 4 Painan writing present continous tense was moderate. It was proved that 21.43% students had high ability , 60.71% students had moderate ability, and 17.86% students had low ability. The positive sentences, their ablility was also moderate and it was proved that 25% students had high ability 46,43% students had moderate ability and 28,57% students low ability. In negative sentence, their ability was moderate and it was provedad that 14,29% students high ability, 71,43% student had moderate ability, 14,29% students had low ability. In writing interrogative sentence their ability was moderate and it was proved that 10.71 % students had ability, 82.14% students had moderate ability, 7,14% students had low ability. Based on the findings, it could be concluded that the ability of the eighth grade students of SMPN 4 Painan in writing simple sentences using present continous tense was moderate. Conquenthy, it is suggested to the English teachers to give students more exercises in order that the students’ ability to write simple sentences using simple continous tense can be improved.

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