THE STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING IN PART OF SPEECH TOWARD WRITING ENGLISH SENTENCES AT BOSOWA UNIVERSITY

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