An Analysis of the First Year Students’ Ability to Write Simple SentencesinPresentContinuous Tense at English Department of Bung HattaUniversity
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to describe the first year students’ Ability of Bung Hatta University to write simple sentences. This study was limited in four sentences forms. The design of this research was descriptive research. The population of this study was first year students. The total number of the population were 56 students. There are two clases (A and B). The researcher used cluster random sampling to select the sample and the total of sample were 27 students. To make the test reliable the researcher used inter-rater technique by using two scorers. The result of the test was very high the realibilty of the test was 0.98 . The test was valid in term of content validity, same syllabus, and same allocation time. Generally, the result of data showed that the ablity of the first year students was moderate It could be seen that 3.45% students have high ability, 86.21 have moderate ability and 10.34% have low ability. in detail the presentages of each of form sentences were; 55.7%students have moderate ability to write positive , 89.66% students have moderate ability to write negative , 44.83% students have moderate ability to write yes/no, 65.51% students have moderate ability to write wh-question form. In line with this conclusion, the lecturers and students are suggested to give more explanation and exercises to the students improve their ability and the students are also suggested to learn and more exercises to improve their ability to write simple sentences
Key words: Writing,Simple Sentences,Present Continuous Tense