STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES IN ANALYZING THE EXPERIENTIAL FUNCTION OF ENGLISH TEXT

Abstract

The study was conducted out to find out the difficulties faced by the students in analyzing the experiential function of English text. The difficulties were analyzed by identifying the errors made by the students in analyzing a text given in a test. The method used in this research was the descriptive quantitative analysis. The subjects of this research were 80 students of the fifth semester of FKIP UNA Kisaran of academic year 2016-2017. The students were comprised of two classes in which each consisted of 40 students. The findings showed that there were some difficulties by the students in analyzing the experiential function of English text. These difficulties were described from the errors they made in the analysis. The errors were in separating the clauses from a text, and labeling. The causes of the errors were commonly overgeneralization that is 46.49%, the other causes were the carelessness or lack motivation to answer the questions 22.81%, the ignorance of the phrase structure rules 17.79%, and incomplete application of the rules 12.91%. The findings also showed that there were only 44 students or 55% regarded as able to draw tree diagram and 36 students or 45% regarded as unable.

Keyword : Diffuculties, Analyzing, Experiental Function