The Students’ Mastery in Using ‘To Be’ and ‘Auxiliary Verb’ in Simple Past Tense Sentences of The First Grade at SMA Negeri 1 Kutowinangun in The Academic Year Of 2016/2017

Abstract

The aims of this research are (1) to describe students‟ mastery level in using to be and auxiliary verb in simple past tense sentences of the first grade of SMA Negeri 1 Kutowinangun in the academic year of 2016/2017. (2) to identify students‟ difficulties in mastering to be and auxiliary verb in simple past tense sentences of the first grade of SMA Negeri 1 Kutowinangun in the academic year of 2016/2017. This is a quantitative descriptive. This thesis explains about the usage of to be and auxiliary verb on first grade of SMA Negeri 1 Kutowinangun. In collecting data, the researcher are prepared the research instrument, giving the test to the students, collected the students‟ worksheet, analyzing the data, the researcher made the percentage of correct and wrong answer for to be and auxiliary verb. This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 1 Kutowinangun on Thursday April 20th 2017. The samples of this research are 66 students which have chosen by random sampling. The researcher took two classes, X MIA 1 and X MIA 4 as the subject of this research. The result shows that the students can not between differentiate to be and auxiliary verb in simple past tense sentences and to get the solution the students should give more attention about to be and auxiliary verb. The mean score of the students‟ mastery level of using to be and auxiliary verb is 65.88. Based on the table achievement it is on the range 56-65 which is categorized as fair. Then the mean score of the students‟ mastery level of using to be is 71.36, based on the table achievement it is on the range of 66-79 which is categorized as good. The mean score of the students‟ mastery level of using auxiliary verb is 64.77, based on the table achievement it is on the range 56-65 which is categorized as fair. And based on the result of interview, the researcher found some of the students difficulties in mastery to be and auxiliary verb in simple past tense sentences, those difficulties are confuse about the subject (singular and plural), confuse about the verb whether irregular or regular verb, confuse to differentiate to be and auxiliary, do not know the structure and do not understand the meaning.