The Ability of The Students of SMA Kristen Makassar in Using English Transitive Verbs | www.kabar.50webs.com | Website Informations

The objective of the research is to find out the ability of students and some factors hampering the students in using English transitive verbs. The instrument of the research were transitive verbs test and questionnaire. Transitive verbs test consisted of two parts namely part A with multiple choice test that consisted of 15 items, and part B with essay test that consisted of 10 items. And questionnaire consisted of 14 items.
In this research the writer used descriptive method. The problem statements of the research were to what extant is the ability and what factors hampering the students in using English transitive verbs. The population of the research was the second year students of SMA Kristen Makassar. It consisted of 22 students. In the research writer used random sampling techniques.
The result of the research indicated that the ability of the students of SMA Kristen Makassar in using English transitive verbs in 2009/2010 academic year was 3,68 and it falls into “poor” category.

Referring to the result above, the writer inferred that the students had poor ability, this was caused by some factors that hamper them in using English transitive verbs, namely transitive verbs was very difficult, the students sometimes ask the teacher or their friend about the difficulties in learning transitive verbs, the teacher sometimes give the assignment to the students, the students sometimes use their free time to read English transitive verbs and less of time to read English transitive verbs