The Competence of The Eleventh Grade Students at SMA Negeri 5 Tana Toraja in Using Simple Past Tense

Abstract

The Competence of The Eleventh Grade Students at SMA Negeri 5 Tana Toraja in Using Simple Past Tense. Thesis  English Department Teacher Training  and Education  Faculty Christian University of Indonesia Toraja. The objective of this research is to find out the competence  of the eleventh  grade students at SMA  Negeri 5 Tana Toraja  in using simple past tense. The writer used written test. In order to achieve the objective of this study, The writer used quantitative method. Population from this research is all of the eleventh grade students at SMA Negeri 5 Tana Toraja with the total of students is 264 and divided eight classes. The writer used random sampling. The object of this research was  40 students of  the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Tana Toraja academic year 2017/2018. The result of the data analysis shows that the competence of the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 5 Tana Toraja in using simple past tense got mean score of 47,75. It means that the competence of the  students is very bad category.