The Students’ Ability to Distinguish the Usage of Present Participle and Gerund at Universitas Muhammadiyah Sorong

Abstract

The objective of the research is to know the students ability to distinguish the usage of present participle and gerund. There are some problems faced by the students in learning English grammar, such as the confusion about grammar. It arises because of the mismatch between form and function as in using gerund. In order to answer the problem stated above, the researcher did a research to some students at English department at the third semester of Sorong Muhammadiyah University about their ability in distinguish the usage of English present participle and gerund. The problem statements of this research is how is the students ability to distinguish the usage of present participle and gerund?. The researcher applied a descriptive method in verifying the arguments of this thesis, the researcher used test as the instrument of the research. The data obtained from the test were firstly tabulated and then analized into mean score analysis. Finaly, the researcher interred the conclusion. Based on the test result, it discovered that the third semester at English department of Sorong Muhammadiyah University have very poor ability in distinguisg the usage of present participle and gerund. The research would like to gave some suggestions related to the research. The researcher hope that this research will be useful for English lecturer. The researcher hope a lecturer more creative and innovative in using learning strategy expecially in English grammar so that students felt no bored in learning and lecturer must be able to motivate students.