Vicky Fawzah , 2201412048 (2017) STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN CHANGING ACTIVE VOICE INTO PASSIVE VOICE IN SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE AND SIMPLE PAST TENSE (A Case of Ninth Graders of SMP Negeri 2 Pemalang in the Academic Year of 2016/2017. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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This final project is a report onthe analysis of students’ difficulties in changing Active Voice into Passive Voice in Simple Present Tense and Simple Past Tense. This study was conducted at the IX Grade of SMP Negeri 2 Pemalang in the academic year 2016/2017.The objectives of this study are to identify the students’ difficulties in changing Active Voice into Passive Voice in Simple Present Tense and Simple Past Tense, and to find out the cause of difficulties in changing Active Voice into Passive Voice in Simple Past Tense and Simple Present Tense. This research was error analysis employing qualitative case study method. The subject of this study was the ninth grade students of SMP N 2 Pemalang in the academic year of 2016/2017. The sampling process was administered by applying a random sampling technique. There were 306 students of the ninth grade, and I took 29 students as the sample.I collected the data by giving Try-out test and test. Try-out test was given at IX H to check the validity and reliability of the instrument. After the test items have been valid and reliable then a test was given at IX G of SMP Negeri 2 Pemalang. The result of this research showed that in changing Active Voice into Passive Voice in Simple Present Tense and Simple Past Tense students faced difficulties in determining: proper Pronoun (52 errors or 6.46%), Auxiliary be (385 errors or 47.88%), Past Participle (197 errors or 23.45%),Misordering (103 errors or 12.81%), Passive order but Active form (50 errors or 6.21%), and Active order but Passive form (17 errors or 2.11%). Based on the interviews with the students, the cause of errors can be categorized into interlingual and intralingual. Interlingual errors happened because the interference of a native language into a target language, while intralingual error happened because of the complexity of the target language which is different from their native language such as in Tenses, Pronoun and Auxiliary be. In line with the students’ difficulties in changing Active Voice into Passive Voice, I suggest that the teacher should realize and pay careful attention on the students difficulties by looking at the items regarded as the highest into the lowest frequency of errors made by the students. Then, the teacher should give more practices to the students. The last is the teacher should also use interesting media so that the students will be enthusiastic to keep up the learning process.

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