An Analysis of Students' Ability In Recognizing and Constructing Compound Noun Phrases At Fifth Semester English Education Students of UIN Sjech M. Djamil Djmbek Bukittinggi
ABSTRACT Yoga Aditya Hasan: 2317107, ‘’An Analysis Of Students’ Ability In Recognizing And Constructing Compound Noun Phrases at Fifth Semester English Education Department Students of UIN Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi'', Thesis, UIN Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi 2023. The purpose of this study was to identify the ability of 5th semester students to recognize and construct compound noun phrases in a sentence. The researcher found several problems from the research results that the students studied were unable to determine noun phrases and were still wrong in constructing random sentences given in the form of test questions. This researcher used a quantitative approach with test instruments. The researcher used a purposive sampling technique, the researcher gave an instrument in the form of a test with two groups of questions. The first group, namely students are required to be able to recognize noun phrases by underlining the noun phrases, then in the second group students compose sentences of noun phrases correctly and correctly. The results of the study regarding Students’ Ability In Recognizing And Constructing Compound Noun Phrases at Fifth Semester English Education Department Students of UIN Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi'', in general, students do not understand and do not recognize noun phrases, students are unable to distinguish which is a verb or a noun as a phrase in recognizing noun phrases according to a predetermined pattern. Keywords: Analysis, Students’ Ability, Recognizing, Constructing, Compound Noun Phrases