A study on the students' achievement in doing the tests of the four skills in English based on the communicative approach

Widyastuti, Dyah (2006) A study on the students' achievement in doing the tests of the four skills in English based on the communicative approach. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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Abstract

Language has close relationship with human life, since it is applied in the communication among society. It is impossible for human beings to communicate one another without language. The communication which is used might be in the form of either verbal or non verbal communication. Communicative Approach, as the latest method which is being used in the study of English, is applied to the students to get the expected result. It is applied in reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. The goal of this research is to know the students' achievement in doing reading, writing, listening, and speaking tests. The method which is used in this research is descriptive in nature. It only describes the students' achievement in doing the tests. The forms of the tests given to the students are multiple choice and essay tests. Multiple choice test exists in reading and listening tests, while essay test exists in the whole English tests-reading, writing, listening, and speaking-tests. After the tests had been done, the mark was given to each kind of the tests. Then, they were analyzed. The result of the test shows that reading test is the best in the percentage. It gets 87%. Writing test gets 86% in the percentage. In the last two kinds of tests, namely listening and speaking tests, they get 81%and 78% in the percentage respectively. The students' achievement in doing the whole English tests shows that 57, 50% students were very good. 35% of the students were good and 7, 50% of the students arefair. The most common mistakes they made were concerning with the position of personal pronoun and possessive pronoun in a sentence. While most of the correct answers they made were dealing with pictures which had to be matched with the statements

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