STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT IN WRITING AN ESSAY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56983/jlta.v1i2.217Keywords:
Subject-verb agreement, Writing test, Descriptive essay, Students’ abilityAbstract
This study aimed at finding out how the students' skills in using subject-verb agreement in writing essays. This research method is descriptive quantitative method. The research data was collected through the writing test as an instrument. The sample of this research was the fifth-semester students of English Education at the Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar. The sample was taken by using simple random sampling. Based on the analysis and discussion about this research, the researcher concluded the researcher concluded that the students' ability to use the subject-verb agreement in the fifth semester students of English Education at the Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar was categorized into very good level with a score was 88.24. This value is obtained based on the results of the scores of all students that are divided into the number of students who are the samples of this study. From 35 students, there were 7 students whose mastery levels were excellent, 16 students gained a very good level, 8 students whose mastery levels were good, 3 students gained a good level, 1 student gained a fair level, and no student gained a poor level. Moreover, the last level is very poor and no student gained this level.
Downloads
References
Arikunto, Suharsimi. 2012. DasarDasarEvaluasiPendidikan. (EdisiRevisi). Jakarta: BumiAksara
Orlove, Pamela. 2004. Wordsmith: A Guide to College Writing. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.
Azar, Betty Schrampfer.1989. Understanding and Using English Grammar. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Regents.
Browne, A. 2007.Teaching and Learning Communication, Language and Literacy, London: Paul Chapman Publishing.
Brown. H. D. (2000). Principles of language learning and teaching (4th Ed.).White Plains. NY: Addison Wesly Longman. Inc.
Brown, H. D., & Lee, H. (2015). Teaching by principles: an interactive approach to language pedagogy (Fourth edition). White Plains, NY: Pearson Education.
Eastwood, John. (1994). Oxford Guide to English. New York: Oxford University Press
Ellis, R. (1995). Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Gay, L. R., Mills, G. E., &Airasian, P. W. (2012). Educational research: competencies for analysis and applications (10th ed). Boston: Pearson.
Gerrot, Linda.,&Wignell Peter. (1995). Making Sense of Functional Grammar. Sydney: Antepodean Educational Enterprises.
Ginanjar, F. (2015). An error analysis of subject-verb agreement in expository essay made by first year students of Nusantara PGRI Kediri University in academic year 2014/2015. Artikelskripsi.Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri, 2015.
Hefferman, James, A.W and Linclon, John, E. (1986).Writing a college handbook. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc.
Hermawan, H. 2016. The Effectiveness of Using Webquest Model on Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement at the Ninth Grade Students of SMPN 36 Makassar. Unpublish Thesis UNM Makassar.
Hogue, Ann. 1996. First Steps In Academic Writing Second Edition. Wesley: Company.Inc.
Hornby. A.S. 2010. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th edition). Cambridge: Longman.
Hyland, K. (2004). Genre and second language writing.University of Michigan Press.
ImroatusSholikah. 2017. Corrections on Grammar, Sentence Variety and Developing Detail to Qualify Academic Essay of Indonesian Learners. DinamikaIlmu: Volume 17 (1), 2017
Karim, S. M. S., Fathema, F., & Hakim, A. (2015). An Analysis of Errors of Subject-Verb Agreement among Bangladeshi Tertiary Level EFL Learners. International Islamic University of Chittagong: International Journal of Social Sciences.
Kurniawan, I., &Seprizanna, S. (2016). An Analysis of Students’ Ability In Using Subject-Verb Agreement. English Education: JurnalTadris Bahasa Inggris, 9(2), 327-343
Lane, Janet, and Ellen Lange. 1993. Writing Clearly. Boston: Heinle and Heinle
a Publisher.
Layaalia, I. N. (2015). Students’abilityin Writing an Argumentative Essay at the English Teacher Education Department of The State Islamic University of SunanAmpel Surabaya (Doctoral dissertation, UIN SunanAmpel Surabaya).
Mahda, L., Siska, S.S., &Mayuasti. (2016). An analysis of the use of subject-verb agreement in sentences. A study at Tenth Grade Students of SMA Pertiwi 2 Padang.
Norhalimah, N. (2016). The Subject-Verb Agreement in Writing at the Eighth Graders of Mts An-NurPalangka Raya (Doctoral dissertation, IAIN Palangka Raya).
Noori, M. A. J. H. A., Shamary, I. H. K. A., &Yasin, M. S. M. (2015). Investigating subject-verb agreement errors among Iraqi secondary school students in Malaysia. International Journal of Education and Research, 3(5), 433-442.
Nurjanah, S. (2017).An Analysis of Subject-Verb Agreement Errors on Students’ writing. ELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2(1), 13-25.
Pyle and Page.TOEFL Preparation Guide Test of English as a Foreign Language.Delhi: Nice Printing Press, 2002
Rozakis, Laurie. (2003). English Grammar for the Utterly Confused. New York:
McGraw-Hill.
Schreiber, James and Kimberly Asner-self. Educational Research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011.
Sparks. P. S. (2006). Commonsense grammar and style: English for professionals. Boulder, CO: West view Publishing Inc.
Sugiyono, 2007. StatistikaUntukPenelitian. Bandung: Alfabeta.
Straus. J. (2014). The blue book of grammar and punctuation. New York. NY: Jossey
Bass.
Suherman. (2017). TOP Grammar: A Guide to Write English. Kediri, JawaTimur: CV. ResonansiIlmu
Suryo, A. K., &Yustisia, K. K. (2018).The students’ ability in using subject-verb agreement in Senior High School.
