Questionnaires Techniques of Data Collecting

From the class observation, the writer observed the teaching material or method that used by the English teacher in the teaching learning activity. The teacher used Grammar Translation Methodin delivering Regular and Irregular verbs in the Simple Past tense. The English teacher explained the materialgenerally. Then, she also gave few examples of regular and irregular verbs. The last, she gave the students some exercise from the textbook. From the beginning, many students seem did not really interested in learning English, just some of them who paid attention to the teacher’s explanation. However, when the teacher gave them some exercise, many of them were cheated each other.When the teacher asked the students to discuss the exercise, not all of them involved in this discussion. Many of them were sleeping, drawing, and talking to their friends. From the observation, the writer thought teaching learning activity in this classroom may lead students do some errors in applying regular and irregular verbs.

2. The Result of Test

After observing the classroom activity, the writer gave tests about regular and irregular verbs to twenty five students of SMP YPN Bojong Gede. The writer gave the tests twice to get the real data which show errors in the students answer sheet. The first test was held on 8 th of January 2013, and the second test was conducted on 15 th of January 2013. The test consists of 30 items which divided into three parts. The first part asked the students to complete the recount text by filling the blank with the right verbs whether regular or irregular verbs. Then, the second part asked the students to fill the right verbs with the sentences then change it into the past form. The last part asked the students to change the verbs in the brackets to the past form. After collecting data from the second grade students of SMP YPN Bojong Gede, the writer identified the students’ error by giving a circle to the erroneous item. The result of this identification can be seen at the following table.