A STUDY ON THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS’ ABILITY AT MTsNTIKU TO USE DEGREESOFCOMPARISONIN WRITING SENTENCES

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The purpose of this research was to describe the ability of the second grade students of MTsNTiku to use degree of comparison in writing simple sentence. The research design was descriptive, the population was the second grade students of MTsNTiku in academic year 2012/2013. The number of the population members was 182 students. To take the sample The researcher used cluster random sampling technique and class VIII A had been chosen as the sample of this research, and the size of the sample was 30 students. The instrumentation used to get the data was writingsentence test. The reseacher focused on writingsentenceintheformof  positive comparative and superlative degree of adjective and adverb. To know the reliability of the test, the reseacher used inter-rater technique. After that, the result of correlation coefficiency was analyzed by using pearson product moment formula. It was found that the reliability was 0.64 ; and it was categorized as high correlation.Itmeansthetestwasreliable. The result of this study showed that in general the ability of the second grade students of MTsNTiku to use degree of comparison in writing simple sentence was moderate. It was proved by the fact that 24 students (80 %) had moderate ability. The finding of this research lead the researcher to conclude that the second grade students’ ability at MTsNTiku to use degree of comparison in writing simple sentence was moderate ability. The researcher suggests to English teacher to discuss in more detail and giving more exercises to the students to use degree of comparison in writing simple sentence and to the students, they should learn more about degree of comparison in writing simple sentence.

Key words: writing, comparative and superlative degree