Technique of Collecting and Analyzing Data

The Questions of the Interview 1. Apakah kamu tahu dan paham aturan-aturan dalam pembentukan kalimat present perfect dan present perfect continuous tense dalam Bahasa Inggris? 2. Pada bagian apa kamu kesulitan memahami present perfect dan present perfect continuous tense regular pluralirregular plural? 3. Apakah perbedaan Bahasa mempersulit kamu dalam memahami present perfect dan present perfect continuous tense? Kenapa? 4. Apakah menurut kamu semua bentuk kata kerja ketiga dalam Bahasa Inggris bisa ditambah –ed? Kenapa? 5. Menurut kamu, bagaimana cara guru kamu menjelaskan materi present perfect dan present perfect continuous tense? In analyzing the stu dents’ written test, the researcher focused on using present perfect and present perfect continuous tense. Besides, the researcher used some procedures in analyzing students’ errors: collecting the data, identifying the errors by marking the errors in the students’ answer sheet, describing the students’ errors, classifying errors made by the students, and the last counting the errors into percentage. Note that, in identifying the most frequent errors in the form of present perfect and present perfect continuous tense, focus on part one and part two in the test given. Furthermore, to calculate the percentage of students’ errors, the researcher uses the formula below: 2 2 Anas Sujiono, Pengantar Statistika Pendidikan, Jakarta: PT. Grafindo Persada, 2005, p.43 P = Percentage F = Frequency of error made N = Number of cases total of frequency To figure out the learners’ errors in the usage of present perfect and present perfect continuous, the researcher classify the errors into three parts which are present perfect, present perfect continuous, and differentiating whether the sentence is present perfect or present perfect continuous. Then, it will be presented by three tables. The first table presents “the frequency of omission errors in using present perfect tense and present perfect continuous tense ”, the second table presents “the frequency of addition errors in using present perfect tense and present perfect continuous tense ”, and the last table presents “the frequency of misformations errors in using present perfect tense and present perfect continuous tense ”. After the researcher got the frequency of errors in each part, he calculated it and put the data into the table of total of errors in the usage of present perfect and present perfect continuous. Moreover, to figure out the learners’ errors in the form of present perfect and present perfect continuous, the researcher focus on part A and part B in the test. He classified the errors based on the tested area; regular verb, hashave, and irregular verb. All of this will be presented by the table of “frequency of misformation errors in the form of present perfect and present perfect continuous ”. Finally, the total will be presented in the table of “total misformation errors in the form of present perfect and present perfect continuous ”. � = F N x 100