Resa Dewangga Putra, 2201402033 (2009) A STUDY OF THE MASTERY OF THE CAUSATIVE “GET AND HAVE” AMONG THE XII GRADE STUDENTS OF THE SMU 7 SEMARANG OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2006/2007. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

There are five causative verbs in English namely; get, want, make, have and let. However, in this study, the writer only limit to discuss about causative “get” and “have”. This study is purposed to answer two questions stated on the statement of the problems. The first is. How far have the XII grade students of the SMU 7 Semarang mastered the causative “Get and Have”? and the second is what kinds of difficulties do the students have in mastering the causative “Get and Have? To answer the questions stated on the statement of the problems, the writer conducted library study to get some relevant theories to develop the comprehension of the causative “get” and “have” and conducted survey research to collect the data. From the sample, the writer used a test and questionnaire as the instrument in this study. The test was conducted and the questionnaire was distributed at SMU 7 Semarang on (day, date, year) and followed by 37 students, who come from the third grade students of SMU 7 Semarang but only 20 students were chosen randomly as the sample. The writer used an evaluation system to compare the achievement standard of a student and his class. From the analyzed data, the writer found that two students got A, three students got B, ten students got C, five students got D and nobody got E. So based on the data, the writer concludes that the third grade students of SMU 7 Semarang have mastered the causative “Get” and “Have”. The writer also found that the students have difficulties in (1) putting the major constituent in the wrong order (2) making ungrammatical sentences (3) the meaning of “get” and “have” as causative verbs and (4) the causative rules. These difficulties may be caused by carelessness and previous knowledge of the students. Finally, the writer suggested that there are more investigation of causative “have” and “get” to see the errors occured in learning English and the English teachers should improve their teaching learning strategy to measure the mastery of their students about causative “have” and “get”.

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