AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS DIFFICULTIES IN USING ENGLISH PASSIVE VOICE: A CASE STUDY AT THIRD GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 NARMADA IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2015/2016

Main Author: WIJAYA, ILWAN KUSUMA
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2017
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Online Access: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/188/1/SKRIPSI%20Ilwan%20Kusuma%20Wijaya%20%28E1D%20111%20059%29.pdf
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  • This thesis entitled “An Analysis of Student’s Difficulties in Using English Passive Voice: A Case Study at Third Grade Students of SMAN 1 Narmada in Academic Year 2015/2016” aims at describing the difficulties and factors contributing to the students’ difficulties in English passive voice that students experienced. It was limited in using four tenses of passive voice, there were: simple present tense, simple past tense, present continuous tense and past continuous tense. The participants of the research were students in XII IPA 2 which consisted of 39 students as the sample. The data of this study were taken by giving tests and questionnaires to the samples. The method used to analyze the data was quantitative method. The data analysis in this research was the student’s test, regarding to the forming in four different tenses of English passive voice. The descriptive qualitative method was used in presenting the result of data analysis. After doing the research, it was found that there were four types of difficulties that the students faced. There were: verbs changes problem, inappropriate use of to be, placement of subject, and placement of verb. The contributing factors found to have caused those problems were mostly the student’s lack of vocabulary and poor understanding in context and structure of passive voice.