AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN IDENTIFYING SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT OF TOEFL-LIKE TEST AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
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ABSTRACT Grammar is one of the most important language components and it was taught by the students of Primary School Teacher Education of Bung Hatta University in the subject of TOEFL Preparation. One of the materials in this subject is Subject-verb Agreement. Although many studies focused on subject-verb agreement on writing skills, while this research will focus on identifying subject-verb agreement in TOEFL-like grammar test. Therefore, the present study aims to find out the third year students’ ability in identifying subject-verb agreement of TOEFL-like test at the Department of Primary School Teacher Education of Bung Hatta University. The population of this research was the third year students at the Department of Primary School Teacher Education of Bung Hatta University. The number of sample was 27 students taken by cluster random sampling technique. The instrument for this research was a grammar test in the form of multiple choices to collect the data. The result of this research showed that the third year students had low ability in identifying subject-verb agreement of TOEFL-like test. It was proved that 1 student (3.7%) had excellent ability, 9 students (33.34%) had good ability, 4 students (14.81%) had moderate ability, and 13 students (48.15%) had low ability in identifying subject-verb agreement of TOEFL-like test. Keywords: Ability, Identify, Subject-verb Agreement, Simple Present Tense, Simple Past Tense.Referensi
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