AN ANALYSIS ON SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO WRITE SIMPLE PRESENT SENTENCES AT SMA N 1 BASO KABUPATEN AGAM

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Abstract

Based on the interview to the English teacher at SMAN 1 Baso, the students at SMAN 1 Baso had studied simple present tense. The researcher wanted to prove the second year students’ ability of SMAN 1 Baso to write simple present sentences. The purpose of this research was to describe the second year students’ ability of SMAN 1 Baso Kabupaten Agam to write simple present sentences. The design of this research was descriptive in nature. The population of this research was the second year students of SMAN 1 Baso Kabupaten Agam. The number of members of  population was 200 students. The researcher took one class from each department by stratified cluster random sampling. The result of data analyzing the data showed that the ability of second year students of SMAN 1 Baso Kabupaten Agam to write simple present sentence was moderate ability. It could be seen that 84.62% have moderate ability, 10.25% have high ability, and 5.13% have low ability. In detail the percentages of each of form sentence were; 71.79% students have moderate ability to write simple present of affirmative sentence, 41.03% students had moderate ability to write simple present of negative sentence, 64.1% students had moderate ability to writing simple present of yes/ no question sentence, and 69.23%. Finally, based on the findings, it could be concluded that in general students’ ability to write simple present sentence was moderate. In line with this conclusion the researcher suggested the English teachers to use strategies and give more exercises to the students in writing writing simple present sentence. The students are suggested to learn more about simple present sentence and do more exercises of writing simple present sentence in order to improve their ability.

words: Analysis, Simple Present Tense, Students’ Ability, Write Sentence