Dudung Taryana (2010) THE STUDENTS’ LINGUISTIC PROBLEMS IN WRITING NARATIVE PARAGRAPH AT THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF MADRASAH ALIYAH (MA) DINIYAH PUTRI PEKANBARU. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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Having a good grammatical system of English will be helpful for students in delivering their ideas, messages and feelings either to the listeners or to readers. Language without grammar would be disorganized and causes some communicative problems such as misunderstanding between speaker and listener or between writer and reader. Hence, students need to know the grammatical system of language in order that they can communicate with others to transfer messages properly. In accordance with the objective of the English teaching in the Senior High School, it is expected that after they are graduated from Senior High School, the students have the four skills, i.e. reading, listening, speaking, and writing in English with good vocabulary and grammar mastery. Furthermore, the writer is interested in analyzing the errors in narrative writing assignments of the second year students of MA. Diniyah Putri Pekanbaru because the students have studied narrative paragraph writing such as descriptive and narrative and the grammatical structures related to the writing genres, but some students still make mistakes or errors in writing narrative paragraph in term of its grammatical structure. This study tries to investigates the students’ problems in using simple past tense in writing narrative paragraph at the second year of Madrasah Aliyah Diniyah Putri Pekanbaru. The population of this research is the students at the second year of MA. Diniyah Putri Pekanbaru. It consists of one class, namely 30 students. All students were the samples of the research. This research is a qualitative-quantitative research, which focuses on numerical and non-numerical data. The data obtained were analyzed statistically and interpreted qualitatively to describe the research problem and findings. The formula used is: N xMMM D %100....321 ++ = The research findings indicate that: 1. The students’ problem in using “correct “to be” of simple past is categorized into low since the obtained score is in the rank of 0% -40%. 2. The students’ problem in using verb of simple past is categorized into low since the obtained score is in the rank of 0% -40%. 3. The students’ problem in using adverb of time of simple past is categorized into low since the obtained score is in the rank of 0% -40%. 4. The students’ problem in using “not” of the negative form simple past is categorized into low since the obtained score is in the rank of 0% -40%. 5. In general, the students’ problems in using simple past in writing narrative paragraph are considered low in the category of enough.

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