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CHAPTER IV RESEACH FINDINGS
A. DATA DESCRIPTION
In this part, the writer is going to provide description about instrument of data used in this study. The data are English test result about voice of simple past
tense. She gave the test to the 20 students of the second grade of SMP Al Kautsar Parungpanjang-Bogor which consists of 40 questions. The number of items are
divided into four parts. Part I to find out the correct forms of passive voice of simple past tense which consist of 10 items, part II complete each sentence using
correct verb of simple past tense on form of passive voice which consist of 10 items, part III changing the following sentences from active into passive form of
simple past tense which consist of 10 items, part IV changing the following sentences from passive voice into active form of simple past tense which consist
of 10 items. The writer divided the table of data description into five colomns. The first
column consists of students numbers, the second column consists of students original answers, the third column is the corrections made by the writer, the fourt
column consists of classification of kinds of the passive voice of simple past tense errors made by students, and the last consists of classification of types of error
made by students, can be seen in appendix.
Table 4.1 The Recapitulation of Types of Student’s Error in Using The Passive Voice of
Simple Past Tense
Based on the recapitulatio n of students‟ errors types in Table 4.1, it could
be known that the highest error made by the second grade of Al Kautsar Parungpanjang is misformation with the total errors 368, and there are 27 errors in
omission. Next, the lowest error of students‟ errors is misordering with the total
errors 13. Then, the writer calculated the frequency and the percentages of students‟ error types in the table below:
Students Name
Omission Misformation
Misordering Total Error
Student 1 3
18 -
21 Student 2
- 16
3 19
Student 3 -
19 -
19 Student 4
1 10
1 12
Student 5 1
17 -
18 Student 6
5 12
1 18
Student 7 2
21 1
24 Student 8
1 24
- 25
Student 9 1
15 -
16 Student 10
3 20
1 24
Student 11 -
13 -
13 Student 12
1 26
- 27
Student 13 3
22 -
25 Student 14
- 22
1 23
Student 15 -
20 -
20 Student 16
1 14
- 15
Student 17 -
21 1
22 Student 18
3 21
2 26
Student 19 -
19 1
20 Student 20
2 18
1 21
Total 27
368 13
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