The Students’ Mastery in Using ‘To Be’ and ‘Auxiliary Verb’ in Simple Past Tense Sentences of The First Grade at SMANegeri1 Kutowinangun in The Academic Year Of 2016/2017

Abstract

The aims of this research are (1) to describe students’ mastery level in using to be and
auxiliary verb in simple past tense sentences of the first grade of SMANegeri 1
Kutowinangun in the academic year of 2016/2017. (2) to identify students’ difficulties in
mastering to be and auxiliary verb in simple past tense sentences of the first grade of
SMANegeri 1 Kutowinangun in the academic year of 2016/2017. This is a quantitative
descriptive. This thesis explains about the usage of to be and auxiliary verb on first grade
of SMANegeri 1 Kutowinangun. In collecting data, the researchers prepared the research
instrument, giving the test to the students, collected the students’ worksheet, analyzing
the data, the researcher made the percentage of correct and wrong answer for to be and
auxiliary verb. This research was conducted at SMA Negeri 1 Kutowinangun on
Thursday April 20th 2017. The samples of this research are 66 students which have
chosen by random sampling. The researcher took two classes, X MIA 1 and X MIA 4 as
the subject of this research. The result shows that the students can not differentiate
between to be and auxiliary verb in simple past tense sentences and to get the solution the
students should give more attention about to be and auxiliary verb. The mean score of the
students’ mastery level of using to be and auxiliary verb is 65.88. Based on the table
achievement it is on the range 56-65 which is categorized as fair. Then the mean score of
the students’ mastery level of using to be is 71.36, based on the table achievement it is on
the range of 66-79 which is categorized as good. The mean score of the students’ mastery
level of using auxiliary verb is 64.77, based on the table achievement it is on the range
56-65 which is categorized as fair. And based on the result of interview, the researcher
found some of the students difficulties in mastery to be and auxiliary verb in simple past
tense sentences, those difficulties are confused about the subject (singular and plural),
confused about the verb whether irregular or regular verb, confused to differentiate to be
and auxiliary, do not know the structure and meaning.
Keywords: Tenses, To Be, Auxiliary Verb, Sentence