Abstract:
Language is one of the important things in our life. Language
becomes essential by knowing and learning it. English is one of the
foreign languages that including in our curriculum. In learning English as
foreign language, there are four skills that expected can be achieved by
the students, such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. Giving a set
of grammatical is very important. for mastering English language. One of
them is the using of pronouns. Pronouns are used for representing
specific people or things. There are many kinds of pronoun, such as
subject pronouns, object pronouns, possessive pronoun, and possessive
adjectives this research is conducted to identify the students‘ difficulties
in using pronouns of second-class at secondary school in 2016/2017.
There are twenty (30) students as the participant of this research which
taken from XB class as the sample from the population that consists of
eighty (80) students.
The method of this research is descriptive and analytical method applied
through test and used SPSS program to analyze data.
The findings show that the students still feel some difficulties in using
pronouns. Most of them are still confused in distinguishing: between
pronouns and the using of subject pronouns and object pronouns; the
function of possessive pronoun, and possessive adjectives e.g. placing a
noun whether in possessive pronoun or possessive adjectives; and the
using of its and it‘s.
Conclusion of this research is there are some difficulties that faced by the
second class of S.S.S. In other words, the using pronouns is still difficult
for the students at S.S. S Therefore, the researcher gives suggestion for
the teacher in order to explore more various teaching strategies in order to
decrease the number of difficulties
