Objective of the Study Significant of the Study Limitation of the Study Outline of the Research Report

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1.4 Objective of the Study

The objectives of the study are: 1. To find out if the eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Cepiring in the academic year of 20092010 master subject-verb agreements. 2. To describe how well the eighth-grade students of SMP Negeri 4 Cepiring in the academic year of 20092010 master subject-verb agreements.

1.5 Significant of the Study

There are three significances from the study. They are: a. Theoretically this study will provide the reader, especially English Department students, with a new understanding about the importance of subject-verb agreement in improving the students’ writing skill. b. Practically the result of the study will give the English teacher a kind of understanding or reflection that can be used as the basic in designing the teaching and learning process. c. Pedagogically the result of the study will give the eighth-grade students of junior high school a fundamental understanding that can be implemented in the classroom for the benefit of the students’ achievement in writing.

1.6 Limitation of the Study

The writer limits the investigation to study the students’ achievement of subject-verb agreement of the eighth grade students of SMP N 4 Cepiring in the academic year of 20092010. vi

1.7 Outline of the Research Report

This research report consists of five chapters. Chapter I consists of the introduction which consists of the background of the study, the reason for choosing the topic, statement of the problem, the objective of the study, the significant of the study, limitation of the study and the outline of the study. Chapter II consists of review of previous study, review of the theoretical studies which discusses about School-Based Curriculum, Grammar in English Language Teaching, The Definitions of Grammar, The Importance of Learning Grammar, Communicative Approach, subject-verb agreement, Subject-Verb Agreement Rule. Chapter III is the method of investigation which discusses research design object of the study, population, sample including technique of sampling, Instrument, Construction of the Instrument, Try-Out of the test, Scoring of the Try-Out Test, Validity of the Test, Reliability of the Test, Difficulty Level, Discriminating Power, Method of Collecting Data, Method of Analyzing Data, Determining Criterion of Mastery Level. Chapter IV describes finding and discussion which consists of Data Analysis, Computing the Students’ Mastery Level, Interpreting the Result of the Data, Interpretation of Data. Chapter V is the conclusions and the suggestions of the research.

CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE