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THE STUDENT’S ABILITY IN USING PASSIVE VOICE OF
SIMPLE PAST TENSE, A SURVEY STUDY ON THE SECOND
YEAR STUDENT OF SMAN 1 LINGSAR IN ACADEMIC
YEAR 2013/
A PROPOSAL
BY
JOURNAL
Submitted as partial fulfillment of requirement for the Degree of Sarjana Pendidikan in English Department of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Mataram University
BY
DIAH NOVIANTI GALINI
(E1D 008012)
ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM
LANGUAGE AND ART DEPARTEMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MATARAM UNIVERSITY
The Student’s Ability in Using Passive Voice of Simple Past Tense,
A Survey Study on The Second Year Students of SMAN 1 Lingsar
in Academic Year 2013/
DiahNovianti Galini Drs. Nurahmadi M.Hum Drs. Baharuddin M.Hum FKIP Mataram University
((Diah.galini@smartfren.com)
. Abstract – The aim this study is to finding out the students’ ability in using passive voice of simple past tense. Subjects taken were the second year students in SMAN 1 Lingsar Academic Year 2013/2014. This study seeks to identify the students’ ability in understanding the structure of passive voice of simple past tense. In this study 60 students were taken as the samples out of 240 students’ population. In collecting the data, the writer employed objective test which consisted of 40 items; 20 items of multiple choices and 20 sentence transformation test items. This study used a descriptive quantitative research working on a single variable. After analyzing and computing the collected data, it was identified that the highest score obtained by the students was 60, the lowest was 3, and students’ mean score was 21.8. As the calculation points out, the whole samples (100%) failed to reach the score of 65 as the minimum completion score. Only 35% percent of students succeeded in objective multiple choice test and only less than 30% of students are capable to provide relevant answer in sentence transformation test. Based on this figures, students’ ability in using passive voice of simple past tense can be categorized as very poor.
Key words: student’s ability, passive voice, simple past tense
A. INTRODUCTION
It is very understandable that any human language completely functions as the vehicle of communication, whereby different meanings, ideas, opinions, messages, and feelings can be most effectively and lucidly expressed, communicated and shared out. Bloomfield (1979) convincingly argues that language plays a great part in the life of human beings. Therefore, the more languages one can speak the more meaningfully he would likely be to communicate and interacts with others.
English is an international language. Almost all countries have adopted English used as a compulsory subject at schools. The University Indonesia has decided that English as a foreign language taught in Indonesian schools. It is learned from primary schools to university. People realize that teaching English at this level becomes very important and need much concern. Besides, English teachers had long been demanded to explore and figure out effective techniques, method, and approaches to help their students mastering English. One of the topics in English grammar that must be learnt by the students is passive voice. Passive voice is the verb form, where the subject receives the action. Thomson and Martinet (19 86 ) stated that the passive of an active tense is formed by putting the verb to be in to the same tense as the active verb and adding the past participle of the active verb. For example: a. Julia wrote the report (active) b.The report was written by julia (passive)
Active Voice Passive Voice Subject +( doer of action ) = Julia Subject + (receiver of action)= The report
Action Verb = Wrote Auxiliary verb = Was Written
Object ( receiver of action )= The report Past Participle = By Julia
From the example above, in a simple rule, the sentence in the active voice can be transformed to the passive voice in which the subject in the active becomes the object in passive voice. The passive of an active tense is formed by putting the verb to be in to the same tenses as the active verb and adding the past participle of the active verb. The subject of the active verbs becomes the agent of the passive verb. The agent is very often to be mentioned, when it is mentioned, it proceeds by “by’ and placed at the end of the sentence. There are some previous researchers who had ever analyzed student’s ability in using passive voice at Senior High School and some of them suggested for those are interested in analyzing about passive voice are capable of doing so at other different schools. Considering that suggestion, I choose the second year students of SMAN 1 Lingsar to conduct a survey study to find out in what extent
MC= SUM of the correct answer of Multiple Choice test ST= SUM of the correct answer of Sentence Transformation test The clasification in students’ ability based on the students score, (96-100) is classified as exelent (86-95) is clasified as very good (76-85) is classified as good (66-75) is classified as fairly good (56-65) is classified as fair (36-55) is classified as poor (0-35) is classified as very poor
Fairly good to very poor levels were classified as low and excelent to good score level were classified as high.
C. FINDING AND DISCUSSION
General score the students of SMAN 1 Lingsar, 60 students that participates in objective multiple choice and sentence transformation test with 40 items of questions, there were 1 student got 60 , 2 student got 46 , 2 students got 43 , 1 students got 41 , 2 student got 37 , 1 student got 36 , 1 student got 32, 2 students got 31 , 3 students got 30 , 1 student got 29 , 2 students got 27 , 3 students got 26 , 1 student got 24 , 3 students got 22 , 2 student got 21 , 3 students got 20 , 1 student got 19 , 1 student got 18 , 3 students got 17 , 2 student got 16 , 1student got 15 , 3 students got 14 , 4 students got 13 , 1 student got 12 , 2 students got 11 , 3 students got 10 , 2 student got 9 , 1 student got 8 , 3 students got 7 , 1 student got 5 , 2 students got 3. Sum of students’ total score (∑(x)) was:
The mean score of the students of the second year in SMAN 1 Lingsar in understanding passive voice of simple past tense was 21. 28. The score was classified as “very poor” and minimum compilation score of English class was 65.
Table III: Question Items and Score Distribution
No. Question
Student correct answer
Student incorrect answer
% of correct answer by students
% of incorrect answer by students A Please choose the fill in the blank.^ correct answer to
1
They built a new road around the city. A new road ….. by them around the city
25 35 41.6 58.
2 The editor edited the articles. The articles …… by the editor. 15 45 25 75
3 Rina read the book every day. The book ….. by her every day 23 37 38.3 61.
4
Andi and Ade took English course on Sunday. English course ….. by them on Sunday.
14 46 23.3 76.
5 I kept the butter in the fridge. The butter ….. in the fridge. 27 33 45 55
6 They prepared the road. The road ….. by them. 22 38 36,6^ 63.
7 People always admired these pictures. These pictures …… by people. 33 27 55 45
8 We played soccer every day. Soccer ….. by us every day. 17 43 28.3 71.
9 Mr. Rahman taught English. English ….. by him. 27 33 45 55
10 Kiki always sang jazz song. Jazz song ….. by her. 16 44 26.6 73.
11 Roni cleaned two cars today. Two cars were ….. by him. 35 25 58.3^ 41.
12 Ida told a nice joke. A nice joke ws ….. by Ida. 24 36 40 60
13
Dani lent the magazine to his class mate. The magazine ws … to his class mate.
14 46 23.3 76.
14 The dog bit a girl. A girl ws ….. by the dog 34 26 56.6^ 43.
15
Mrs. Ainun washed her car every Sunday. A car was ….. by her every Sunday.
28 32 46.6 53.
16
Bono and his friends sang a song entitle “with or without you”. A song entitle “with or without you” was ….. by them.
11 49 18.3 81.
17
Sting wrote a new song lyric every Sunday. A new song lyric was ….. by him every Sunday.
26 34 44.8 56.
18 My^ brother ran a company at the city. A company was ….. by him. 16 44 26.6 73.
19 Amin got the highest score in class. The highest score was ….. by him. 15 45 25 75
20
People of the whole world learned English. English …... by people of the whole world.
32 28 53.3 46.
B Please transform the sentences below into passive voice of simple past
40
Cars ___________________ in America, Japan, and Korea.(Manufacture)
4 54 6.9 93.
D. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion Based on the previous chapter, this study could be concluded that The mean score of the second year students of SMAN 1 Lingsar in understanding passive voice of simple past tense was 21,28. So the second year students of SMAN 1 Lingsar are not able to reach 65 as the minimum compilation score determined by English teacher for English class at SMAN 1 Lingsar. This Phenomenon was determined by categories as follows.The highest score of students after given test is 60 and the lowest is 3 from 100 as maximum total score and the minimum compilation score is 65. Students’ ability in understanding the structure of Passive Voice of simple past tense is categorized very poor. Student’s poor understanding relies on their lack of understanding on the auxiliary verbs and the proper verbs form.Their poor understanding also relies on lacks of context understanding and background knowledge. This is shown by the results that 80 - 100% of the students fail to provide the respective verbs in the more contextually sophisticated sentence transformation. In multiple choices, where the verbs are familiar, 36% of students succeed in providing the correct structure. In sentence transformation test, the result is less satisfying because less than 31% students succeed in transforming active sentence into passive Voice of simple past tense.
5. 2 Suggestion Based on the result of the research, the writer would like to put forward the following suggestion concerning the ability in understanding the structure of passive voice of simple past tense.The students have to learn carefully the simple past tense.The students are strongly suggested to understand and learn more the concept of passive voice, especially passive voice of simple past tense. The Teacher have to use more approach, technique of teaching strategy. Especially related with essay. Such as Drilling, Word Play and Filling Gap.
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