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As seen on table 2.1, there were 31 of student who fall into “Poor” category or equals to 37 of 120 participants. These students could handle the
elementary knowledge of participial adjective accurately but did not have through control of the adjective participial. Moreover, 23 of students fall into “Fair”
category which indicates that 92 participants could control the participial adjective is good.
Meanwhile, 20 of students understand how to differentiate the –ing and –ed participial adjective, which concluded as ‘well understanding’ or ‘Very Good’
result. About 15 of students achieved ‘Good’ result, indicating they have not yet used adjective participial accurately or still confused how to use and
differentiate the –ing and –ed participial adjective. Lastly, the percentage of students who fall into “Very Poor” category were 11. In this category, these
students have low understanding and frequently meet errors in adjective participial are frequent.
B. Qualitative Data
After having distributed questionnaire and analyzed it, the researcher needs to obtain more details and additional information upon the students’
understanding. Thus, researcher has taken the samples from the categories ‘Very Good’ two students, ‘Fair’ one student, and ‘Very Poor’ two students
category. The researcher then conducted interview which would eventually explain more about students’ understanding and difficulty on adjective participial.
18 In the interview, researcher found that some of the students have a good
ability to understand adjective participial. These students could differentiate the present -ing and past -ed participial adjective. It was proved by the statement
students gave in the interview. “Setahu saya adjective participle itu adjective, lalu yang membedakan
antara present dan past adjective participial adalah maknanya dan penggunaanya.
Present adjective
participle digunakan
untuk mendeskripsikan sesuatu sedangkan past adjective participle untuk
mengeskpresikan perasaan seseorang” –Koresponden 1
As I know, adjective participial is an adjective word, the differences between present and past are its meaning and its function. The present
adjective participial describes the people or things while the past adjective
participle is to express people’s feeling– Correspondent 1
However, not all students who were interviewed understand about participial adjective. Researcher found that some other students are still confused
and do not know what adjective participial exactly is. They often guessed when it comes to answering questions related to adjective participial in learning English.
This condition could be seen from the student’s statement in the interview as below:
“…kurang tahu mas,saya sendiri masih bingung apa yang dimaksud dengan adjective participle”– Koresponden 3
…I do not really know and am confused about what adjective participial exactly is – Correspondent 3
2.3 Discussion
