STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY THE SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

B. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Based on the background of the study describe above, the writer is interested in analyzing the common mistake made by the second year students of Mts Almunawaroh Islamic Junior High School in grammar. These mistakes are taken from the Summative test. The writer would like to formulate the problem as follow ; “What are the common students’ mistakes in learning grammar made by the students of second year at Mts Islamic Junior High School Almunawwaroh?’.

C. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

In line with the statement of the problem stated above, the purpose of the study is to analyze the common students’ mistakes in learning grammar made by the students of second year at Mts Almunawaroh. Moreover, It is very essential that the teachers know the grammar and mistakes commonly made by the students. Not only will it provide feedback for improving the teaching techniques but also it can lead to the implication of the mistakes on English language teaching. The writer hopes that this study will be useful for both teachers and students to study harder in order to avoid in making mistakes.

D. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY

The result of the finding is expected to provide useful information about the common mistakes made by the students in learning grammar at students of Mts Almunawaroh West Jakarta. Besides, this finding can contribute to two groups of people such as English teacher and further researcher. For the English teacher, by analyzing the common mistakes made by the students of Mts Almunawaroh. Moreover, it can improve the quality of herhis teaching strategies. Finally, it makes the students easy in learning grammar. Moreover, for further researcher, this finding can be the basic consideration to enrich the further researcher’s knowledge to conduct the further study.

E. THE SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The scope and limitation of the study will focuses on an analysis the common students’ mistakes in learning grammar made by the students of second year at Mts Almunawaroh . The explanation will serve in the highest percentage of mistakes only in Tenses, Degree of Comparison and Preposition.

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