Abstract:
This research aimed to find out the students’ ability in employing part
of speech (noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction,
and interjection) in writing English sentences by the second year students
Universitas Bosowa. By discipline, this research deals teaching writing used
part of speech of second year students of Universitas Bosowa. By content,
the writer focuses on writing English text. By activity, this research provided
English text, means that the writer give a word for students who have
problems in writing use part of speech has teaching method
The writer used qualitative research. This research describes the
students’ ability in employing part of speech in writing English sentences at
the second year of Universitas Bosowa. The writer applied total sampling
technique. Total sampling mean that the writer took the sample who had
difficulties in writing especially in English sentences that shown in their
result. The writer took one class as the sample of the research
The result of the study found that the mean score of the test was
59.3 In exercise 1 most of the students couldn’t answer question number
2,3,5,6,7,12,14,16,18,19 and 20 Besides that, exercise 2 most of the
students couldn’t answer question number 3,5,6,7,12,14,16,18 and 20. All
the students couldn’t explain detail the most difficult or misunderstanding
about the eight part of speech. The writer assume that they confuse to
choose which one of part of speech that they can answered correctly.
Perhaps they need to learn part of speech actively to make them more
understand. Finally, the writer concluded that using part of speech was fair
to increase the students’ ability in writing English sentences at Bosowa
University
