Assessing Seventh Grade Students' Proficiency in Utilizing Simple Past Tense and Past Continuous Tense: A Study at SMP Panti Budaya
Keywords:
Ability, Simple Past Tense, Past Continuous TenseAbstract
The objectives of this research are to describe the ability of the seventh-grade students of SMP SMP Panti Budaya in using simple past tense and past continuous tense and to find out the percentage of mistakes they make in using simple past tense and past continuous tense. The population of this research was the seventh-grade students, with 30 students were taken as a sample. The instrument of collecting data was try out test and real test. The result showed that their ability in using simple past tense was 31.84% and past continuous tense was 62.53%. It means the ability the seventh-grade students of SMP Panti Budaya are in the low category to use simple past tense and in the moderate category to use past continuous tense. The most mistakes made by the students based on the result of the thesis with the total incorrect answer were 355. The result showed that the percentage mistake made by students using the Simple Past Tense was 68% and Past Continuous Tense was 32%. The writer also found that the level of the seventh-grade students of SMP Panti Budaya belong to low category, with the percentage 2 (6.67%) in high category, 13 (43.33%) in moderate category and 15 (50%) belong to low category. Thus, the students are suggested to study more the lesson of simple past tense and past continuous tense to do assignment well.
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