The Analysis of Students’ Ability in Using Participial Phrase of The Fourth Semester of English Education Program of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in The Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

In this research, the researcher applies a descriptive qualitative research. The aim of this research is to describe the ability of the fourth semester students’of English education program in the understanding participial phrase. The respondent were the fourth semester students of English Education Program of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year of 2015/2016. The data was taken twice, Sunday 26th April and Thrusday 9th of May 2016. The total respondents was 58 students, the researcher used multiple choice test. Test is used to measure the students’ mastery of participial phrase. The result shows that, from 58 students in 4th semester in A class and B class, there are 3 students categorized as very good ( 5.17%), 5 categorized as good (8.62%), 19 students categorized as fair (32.76%), 26 categorize as poor (44.83%), and 5 students categorized as very poor (8.62%). In the concequences of this low mastery, it needs a breaktrough to bring forward the improvement of students ability, especially in using participial phrase.