THE ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN CHANGING ACTIVE VOICE INTO PASSIVE VOICE

Abstract

This research belongs to descriptive qualitative research. The aims of this research are to describe the students’ ability in changing active voice into passive voice and to identify the causes of students’ difficulty in changing active voice into passive voice. In collecting the data, the researcher uses two instruments test and questionnaire. The test consists of 20 items essay and the questionnaire consists of 15 items checklist for students. The subject is the twelfth grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Gombong in the academic year of 2018/2019 that consists of 36 students. Based on the data of the test, the result shows that the mean score of the students is 61.3 is categorized suffficient. There are 5 students (13.8%) categorized very good, 12 students (33.3%) categorized good, 12 students (33.3%) categorized sufficient, and

7 students (19.4%) categorized poor. While questionnaire, based on the data of the questionnaire, the result shows that the possible factors affecting the students’ ability are 1) students’ competence in personal pronoun (78%), 2) students’ competence in plural and singular (79%), 3) teaching learning process (82%), 4) Students’ assignment (80%), 5) teacher’s role in the class (83%) and 6) teaching learning facilities (80%).

Keyword: Students’ Ability, Passive Voice