Background of the study

B. The Limitation of the study

In this “skripsi” The writer limits himself to discuss the problem faced by students in learning nouns countable and uncountable nouns and how to solve it.

C. Statement of the problem

To clarify the study, the writer has formulated the pro blems: “Are there any significant difficulties in learning countable and uncountable nouns? “

D. Objective of the study

Having the subject of the study more specific, the writer focuses this study on “how to solve the problem in learning countable and uncountable nouns?” And the object of this study was the student at the first years of SMPN 1 Babelan Bekasi.

E. Method of the research

To solve this problem the writing of this skripsi is based on library research that is by reading some books related to the subject and field research: analyzing test paper, observing lesson plan, making some interviews, take the test instrument of the test form which will be analyzed as a data.

F. Organization of the study

The writer has divided his skripsi into four chapters. Chapter one is introduction. It involves the background of the study, limitation of the study, statement of problem, objective of the study, method of the research and the organization of “skripsi” writing. Chapter two deals with the theoretical framework. Library study consist of definition of noun and the kinds of noun, teaching method, teachers’ problem, and students’ problem. Meanwhile in chapter three, talks about the methodology of research and research finding. The methodology of research consist of object of the research, purpose of the research, place and time of the research, population and sample, and research instrument. While research finding explains of data collecting, data description, and data interpretation. In chapter four, the writer make some conclusions and suggestions of what have been discussed in the previous chapter. 6

CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

A. Noun

All teachers want their students to speak and to write fluently, effectively and grammatically. It is not easy to teach grammar to the students, because there are so many rules in grammar, which is not easy to understand. In this section, the writer discusses the meaning of nouns and types of nouns. According to Lid Law in her book that. “Nouns are word that are used to name of person, place or thing”. 1 1 A thing may be a real object head, an idea honor, an action arrival, quality honesty, animal cat, condition sick, or a material iron. Table 2.1 The following is table for nouns: No Person Place Thing Idea 1 William California Table Believe 2 Paula Jakarta Chair Goodness 3 Rita Park Noise Romance 4 Joanne Town Game Honor 5 Father Country Stone Sadness 1 Laidlaw, Laidlaw English, River Forest, Illinois: Laidlaw Brother Publisher, 1987, p. 56.

1. Types of Nouns a. Common and Proper Nouns

There are two classes of noun, proper noun and common noun. A proper noun names a particular person, name of country, or name of thing, and is always capitalized. A common noun names only one of group of persons, place or things and is not capitalized. 2 Table 2.2 The table of common and proper nouns Common Nouns Proper Nouns I’ve never seen a queen They live in a white house The separate states became united stated I’ve never seen the queen They live in the White House The separate states became the United Stated

b. Collective Nouns

Collective nouns are name of a group of people or things. The words committee, orchestra, team, and union all the name are group of people. These nouns are collective nouns. The name of people or things brought together, or collected into a group. The examples of collective nouns are: army, crowd, flock, team, organization, committee, trop, jury, band, group, class, herd, etc. 2 Jhon E.Warriner, English Grammar and Composition, Franklien Edition, 1982, p. 4.