Ndaru, Ayu Puspa (2014) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ GRAMMAR ACCURACY OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN NARRATIVE USING TEACHER’S FEEDBACK OF THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SOCIAL CLASS 2 OF MAN YOGYAKARTA II IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2012/2013. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
English is one of the significant subjects in Indonesia. Nowadays many schools in Indonesia use English as the first foreign language to teach the students. English involves four skills in it. The skills are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Writing is one of the skills in English that the mostly discussed in this study. While practicing teaching in MAN Yogyakarta II, the researcher discovered a problem. The problem was that the writing product of the eleventh graders of MAN Yogyakarta II was not good enough in narrative writing. The students were good in speaking and reading narrative but when they were asked to write narrative texts, they obtained bad scores. They made a lot of grammatical errors especially while using past tense in narrative writing. The research was intended to improve the eleventh grade students‟ grammar accuracy of simple past tense in narrative writing. The researcher chose teacher‟s feedback as the best strategy to solve the problem faced by the students. This research attempted to answer one research problem. The research problem is: how can the eleventh grade students‟ grammar accuracy of simple past tense in narrative writing can be improved in MAN Yogyakarta II? The researcher conducted classroom Action Research (AR) to improve grammar accuracy of the eleventh grade students in the simple past tense in narrative. The researcher conducted two cycles. The participants of the research were 36 students from XI social class MAN Yogyakarta II 2012/2013 academic year. The data were gathered from the analysis of the students‟ drafts, observation sheets, field notes, questionnaires and interviews. The result showed that the students‟ error percentage of simple past tense decreased. In the preliminary study, the average was 56%. Meanwhile, the average of error percentage in the first cycle and in the second cycle became 27% and 21%. Besides, the teacher‟s feedback helped the students to know and understand their mistakes, they also got new knowledge from the feedback such as grammar, vocabulary and simple past tense forms. Furthermore, the students felt motivated after receiving the teacher‟s feedback. It could be concluded that the teacher‟s feedback could improve students‟ accuracy of simple past tense in narrative.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | grammar accuracy, narrative, teacher's feedback, man |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 12 May 2015 02:49 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 22:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/18506 |
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