CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
In this chapter, the writer will report the description of data. These two parts of test were given to take student’s score in reported question;
1. Part A : To test student’s ability to change the direct question into indirect
question by applying the rule for sequence of tenses in its transformation. 2.
Part B : To test student’s ability to change the direct question into indirect question by using suitable pronoun in its transformation.
Having done the test, the writer collected the data needed. The data covered the reported question areas. After that, the writer analyzed students’
difficulties in reported question, and calculated the difficulties by tabulating and calculating the result of errors. Finally, the writer changed the result of the
difficulties into percentage. The following table is the classification of each item about the test of
reported question into area tested.
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Table 4.1: Area Tested of Reported Question and Each Item
No Reported Question
Number of Item
I. Part A
Change the direct question into indirect question by applying the rule for sequence of
tenses: ¾
Simple Present changes into Simple Past
¾ Present Continuous changes into Past
Continuous ¾
Present Perfect changes into Past Perfect
¾ Present Perfect Continuous changes
into Past Perfect Continuous ¾
Simple Past changes into Past Perfect ¾
Future changes into Conditional 1, 8, 9
4 3, 6
10 2, 5
7
II. Part B
Change the direct question into indirect question with suitable pronouns:
¾ The 1
st
and 2
nd
person turns into 3
rd
person; • My turns into Her His
• You turns into He, She, They, and Me
• We turns into They • I turns into HeShe
• Me turns into HimHer 1
5, 4, 3, 6, 7, 8 2
9 10
In the table, the test consists of 20 questions which are divided into two parts. First is part A, it consists of 10 questions. It focuses on the change of tense,
the number 1, 8, 9 concerns to the change of simple present into simple past. In the change present continuous into past continuous is in number 4. The number 3
and 6 in the change present perfect into past perfect. In the change present perfect continuous into past perfect continuous is in number 10.The number 2 and 5 in the
change simple past into past perfect. In the change future tense into conditional is in number 7.
Then, the part B consists of 10 questions. It focuses on the change of pronoun. The number 1 concerns to the change of pronoun “My” turns into
“HerHis”. In the change of pronoun “You” turns into “He, She, They, Me” each of those pronoun are in number 5, 4, 3, 6, 7, 8. The number 2 concerns to the
change of pronoun “We” turns into “They”. In the change of pronoun “I” turns
into “He and She” in number 9. And the last the number 10 concerns to the change of pronoun “Me” turns into Him or Her.
B. Data Analysis
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