A DESCRIPlTlVE STUDY OF THE ABILITIES ON AGREEMENTS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENT AT MAN I MADIUN IN THE 1999 / 2000 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

English has different grammatica rules with Indonesian grammatical rules and most of the students learnt Indonesian rules before they learnt English grammatical rules and they dound English grammatical rules as difficult ones. Naturally, if the language or dialect whose grammar they have learnt before attending school is different from that used in the school, they will have difficulty in any case such as agreement. Furthermore, in agreement involve four factors namely: number, person, gender, and case. The general problem of this research are how the abilities on agreements of the third year students of MAN I Madiun in the 1999 / 2000 academic year. The specific problems of this research are (1) how are the abilities on the subjects that agree with their verbs of the third year students of MAN I Madiun in the 1999 / 2000 academic year; (2) how are the abilities on pronouns that agree with their antecedents of the third year students of MAN I Madiun in the 1999 / 2000 academic year. The purpose of the research was to describe the abilities on agreements of the third year students of MAN I Madiun in the1999 / 2000 academic year. The research design was a descriptive study. The respondent determination method was population since the third year of MAN I Madiun only consist 36 students. The research result showed that the students abilities on the subjects that agree with their verbs were 32,45 % or enough. The students' abilities on pronouns that agree with their antecedents were 41,1 % or enough. The students' abilities on agreements were 37,05 % or enough. Based on the result of the research, it is suggested that English teacher try to apply new technique in teaching agreements such as by using PGR technique to increase the students' abilities especially on agreements because PGR is considered as a technique which is used in teaching a difficult subject in structure.