STUDENTS' PROBLEMS IN CONSTRUCTING ENGLISH SENTENCE PATTERNS AT SMA NEGERI 12 BANDA ACEH

Abstract

Desi Muharni. 2018. Students' Problem in Constructing English Sentence Patterns at SMA Negeri 12 Banda Aceh. Thesis, English Education Department Teacher Training and Education College (STKIP) Bina Bangsa Getsempena, Advisor (I) Hijjatul Qamariah, M. Pd, M. TESOL. Advisor (II) Dr. Sariakin, M. Pd. The purpose of this study was to categorize students' problem in constructing English sentence patterns and to know the factors that make the students get problem in constructing English sentence patterns. The researcher used quantitative research as the method in this study. The questionnaire was used as the instrument. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that the students' problem in constructing English sentence patterns is various. In term of vocabulary, there were three problem faced by the students; lack of vocabulary, getting difficultes to choose the correct words which have the same pronounciation, and getting difficultes to identify the vocabulary from part of speech. Meanwhile, there were three problems of word order faced by the students. They were getting difficulties in using word order, identifying the kinds of word order, and differing the word order. Moreover, in term of punctuation, the problems were getting difficulties in using punctuation, identifying the kinds of punctuation, and differing the punctuation. Furthermore, the problems of tenses were getting difficulties in choosing the proper tenses, identifying the kinds of tenses, and differ the tenses. Moreover, the problem of personal pronoun were the students get difficulties to use personal pronoun, identify the kind of personal pronoun, and the students also got difficulties to differ the personal pronoun in constructing English sentence pattern.

Keywords

English Sentence Pattern, English Grammar