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6. Conducting the Interviews
The researcher asked the headmaster and the teacher for permission to interview several students. The researcher interviewed three students and three
English teachers. Of the three students who were chosen, one made the most errors, one made the fewest errors and one made the greatest range of different
types of errors.
7. Identify the Possible Causes and Make Suggestions
Having obtained the interview data, the researcher interpreted the findings by identifying the possible causes and summarizing suggestions offered by the
students and the English teachers to improve the students’ understanding of basic
noun phrases. 8.
Drawing Conclusion
Finally, after identifying the possible causes of the students’ errors and making suggestions to improve the students’ understanding of basic noun phrases,
the researcher drew her conclusions. 9.
Reporting the Result
Having identified the students’ basic noun phrase errors, discovered the possible causes of the students’ errors and made suggestions to improve students’
understanding of basic noun phrases, the researcher reported the result by describing the findings and including some numeric data as attempts to arrive at
rich description in responding the problem formulation.
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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter will present the results of the document analysis and interviews in respond to the three research problems of this study. This chapter is
divided into three sections. The first section focuses on the basic noun phrase errors made by the seventh grade students. The second section explains the
possible causes of the students’ errors. The last section deals with the suggestions to improve students’ understanding of basic noun phrases.
A. The Errors in Basic Noun Phrases
This first section focuses on the basic noun phrase errors made by the seventh grade students. The analytical tool of this study was the students’
descriptive writing assignment which was written in the form of paragraphs based on a picture provided. In addition, the data was obtained from thirty eight students
of VIIF class of SMP Pangudi Luhur 1 Yogyakarta in the 20112012 academic year. The data analyzed was only basic noun phrase formation. Any errors in
grammar, spelling, and punctuation of the whole paragraph of the students’ descriptive writing were disregarded.
Basic noun phrases then were classified into two types. The type 1 basic noun phrase has a pronoun or numeral as its head and stands alone. While, type 2
has noun heads with the determiners. Table 4.1 shows that the students used type
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