The teacher's strategy to overcome students' errors in using Verb Form of simple Present Tense in descriptive texts at Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surabaya

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Itmam, Ahmad (2011) The teacher's strategy to overcome students' errors in using Verb Form of simple Present Tense in descriptive texts at Eighth Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This final project is a study about the teacher's strategy to overcome students' errors in using verb form of simple present tense in descriptive texts. Most of students find difficulties in writing, moreover in verb form of simple present tense. This research was conducted, because simple present tense plays important roles in descriptive text. This thesis tries to answer the following questions ; 1) What errors are made by students of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Gadung Surabaya in using verb form of simple present tense? 2) what are the causes of those errors 3) What is teacher's strategy to overcome students' errors in using verb form of simple present tense? The research design of the study uses qualitative research analysis. The object of this research was the eighth grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 4 Surabaya in the academic year of 2010-2011. The researcher took one class to conduct this research, namely 8A. The data of this research is collected from the observation, documentation, interview for the teacher, checklist of erros. The result of analysis shows that most of students produced errors in 5 kinds of errors. They are errors in using verb, error in using verb 'be', errors in using verb 'has and have', errors in using modal auxiliary, and errors in negative form. Besides, those errors are classified in to types based on surface strategy based on Dulay. They were omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. From analysis above, that is caused by additing and omiting of be (before and after verb), the students ignore the general target language structure, the students' failure to fully develop a structure, the students did not comprehend the structure in singular and plural form it is concluded that the students produced errors is caused by both mother tongue influence (interlanguage errors) and target language causes (intra.language errors). According to the result of observation and interview, the teacher's strategy to overcome the students' errors was using team work. Inthis activity, the students are more active in group for learning teaching process. Based on the results of the research, the researcher suggested that the teacher should be clever in choosing appropiate tehniques to improve the students writing skill.

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Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
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Itmam, Ahmad--UNSPECIFIED
Subjects: Pendidikan > Strategi Belajar Mengajar
Pendidikan > Bahasa Inggris
Pendidikan > Metode
Keywords: The teacher's strategy; overcome; students' error; verb form of simple present tense; descriptive text
Divisions: Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Editor : Abdun Nashir------ Information------library.uinsby.ac.id
Date Deposited: 17 Jan 2018 08:26
Last Modified: 17 Jan 2018 08:26
URI: http://digilib.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/22002

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