Abstract
In passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb. It is often used both in spoken and written form. For the learners, to change the active into passive voice of the target language is very confusing. The students usually make errors in building passive sentences as they ignore some aspects required in arranging best form of passive sentence. The students of El-Madani Islamic Boarding School Deket Lamongan were confused to change the verb in different tenses. The type of this research is descriptive quantitative. The research was chosen because this type of research defines what exist and may help to reveal new point and meaning. The survey and experiment, which were used in this research, was the phenomena of English errors passive sentences made by the students. The population of this research is all the students of El-Madani Modern Islamic Boarding School.The researcher used test and questionnaire to collect the data. The result of this study shows that (1) the kinds of errors commonly made by the students in changing active voice to passive voice are errors of omission, errors of addition, errors of miss-formation, and errors of miss-ordering (2) The students have difficulties in understanding passive voice especially in four tenses, simple present tense, simple past tense, present continuous tense and past continuous tense. (3) Factors which affect students’ ability in passive voice are: classroom atmosphere, lack of experience in using English, teacher’s explanation was not clear enough, the differences between passive voice in Bahasa and English. Keywords: Students’ errors, passive voice
Highlights
Learning English is not easy; Indonesian learners are often confused to comprehend English because there are some differences between the English and Indonesian language systems
AND DISCUSSION In order to find data and information of the student’s difficulties in four tenses of passive voice, there are: simple present, simple past, present continuous and past continuous tenses, the writer applied 20 questions that the students were asked to transform the active voice into passive voice
In questions item number 11 to 20, the students of Elmadani Islamic Boarding School find the difficulties to change active into passive sentence. 38.24% in number 11, 61.76% in number 12, 61.76% in number 13, 61.76% in number 14, 73.53% in number 15, 94.12% in number 16, 50% in number 17, 29.41% in number 18, 100% in number 19, and 44.12% in question item number 20
Summary
Learning English is not easy; Indonesian learners are often confused to comprehend English because there are some differences between the English and Indonesian language systems. Lado (1996:163) states that learning is a foreign language can be defined for test purpose as learning to understand and be understood, but more especially as learning to use the structural units and patterns of the foreign language in validity situation. From this definition, it can be said that learning a foreign language is not just enough to understand the language but it is necessary to measure to what extend the learners ability to master the grammar or structure correctly in any situation
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