AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING PASIVE VOICE AT SMA NEGERI 1 SITIUNG

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Abstract
Based on the researcher’s pilot interview to the students and teachers of SMA Negeri 1 Sitiung, the researcher found that some students had problems in writing passive voice. The students made many errors when they wrote passive voice.This research was aimed to describe the ability of the second year students’ ability in writing passive voice at SMA Negeri 1 Sitiung. The design of this research was descriptive. The number of population was 205 students. The researcher used Stratified cluster random sampling technique. The researcher took 41 students as the sample. It means the researcher took 20 % as the sample. The instrument used to collect the data in this research was grammar test in essay form. The test had thirty questions. It consists of ten words that have to written in passive voice. There were ten sentences for the simple present tense, ten sentences for the simple past tense, and ten sentences for simple future tense. To analyze the data based on the result of grammar test, the researcher presented the raw score, calculated the students’ score, mean, standard deviation (SD), classified the students who got high, moderate, or low ability, and counted the percentage of students’ ability. The result of this research showed that the second year students’ ability in writing passive voice at SMA Negeri 1 Sitiungwas moderate (63.41%). The researchersuggests that the teacher should give more exercises to the students in writing passive voice in order toincrease the students’ ability especially for the students that had low ability. And for the students, the researcher suggests them to do more exercises that are given by teachers. Finally, for the other researchers, the researcher suggests to do research on the factors that can help them increase the ability of write passive voice or factors affecting students’ ability in writing passive voice.
Key words: Ability, Writing, Passive Voice.