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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
This chapter consists of two major sections: 1 data presentation and 2 discussions. The first section presents the data which answer the research
questions. And the second section discusses the research findings. All of the sections are important to show the working of the study as well as to see the
process of meaning making and interpretation from the available data.
A. Data Presentation
The important thing that the writer had to do after gathering the data was working with all the data. The data that should be analyzed in this study were
mainly taken from the pronoun comprehension tasks, interviews, and observations. The writer analyzed the data step by step. The following part
describes the data gathered by the writer.
1. Data of the Pronoun Types Which Cause Comprehension Problems to
the Eighth Grade Students of Junior High School
The step that the writer did with the data of the comprehension task was counting the numbers of students who made incorrect answers on each item of the
comprehension task part A. The researcher counted the numbers of students who
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the first formulated problem.
Table 4.1 The percentage of the number of students with incorrect answers on each task item in comprehension task part A
Task items Type of pronoun tested
Students with incorrect answer
Item number 1 Subjective personal pronoun
41.27 Item number 2
Reflexive pronoun 11.11
Item number 3 Subjective personal pronoun
11.11 Item number 4
Subjective personal pronoun 44.44
Item number 5 Reflexive pronoun
26.98 Item number 6
Possessive pronoun 20.63
Item number 7 Reflexive pronoun
49.20 Item number 8
Subjective personal pronoun 30.15
Item number 9 Possessive pronoun
9.52 Item number 10
Possessive pronoun 17.46
Item number 11 Objective personal pronoun
33.33 Item number 12
Objective personal pronoun 34.92
Item number 13 Subjective personal pronoun
36.50 Item number 14
Reflexive pronoun 9.52
Item number 15 Reflexive pronoun
12.69 Item number 16
Possessive pronoun 77.78
Item number 17 Objective personal pronoun
42.86 Item number 18
Objective personal pronoun 22.22
Item number 19 Possessive pronoun
46.03 Item number 20
Objective personal pronoun 47.61
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46 The table 4.1 presents the percentage of the numbers of the students with
incorrect answers on each task item in the comprehension task part A. The computation of the percentage was obtained by referring to the formula of the
computation in Chapter III.
Table 4.2 The percentage of the students with incorrect answers on each pronoun type
Pronoun types The percentage
Subjective personal pronouns
32 Objective personal
pronouns 36.18
Possessive personal pronouns
34.28 Reflexive pronouns
21.19
Table 4.2 presents the computation of the mean percentage of the number of the students with incorrect answer on each pronoun type. The calculation of the
mean percentage referred to the computation formula in Chapter III.
2. Data of the Pronoun Functions Which Cause Comprehension
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