STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING PERSONAL PRONOUN AS SUBJECT AND OBJECT IN SIMPLE SENTENCE AT SECON YEAR STUDENTS OF MUALLIMIN MUHAMMADIYAH ISLAMIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BANGKINANG KAMPAR REGENCY

This thesis focuses on students’ ability in using personal pronouns as subject and object in simple sentence. Some of the students do not fully understand the function of personal pronouns taught and they do not know what appropriate personal pronoun should be applied in a sentence. In reality, students have studied English at Elementary School for three and two years at junior high school. However, their proficiency in English, especially in grammar is still far from the expectation. The objectives of this research are to find out the students ability in using personal pronouns and to know the factors that influence students’ ability in using personal pronouns. In this study, the writer took 100% of 30 students, namely 30 students as sample. In analyzing the data, the writer used descriptive qualitative technique with percentage, as formulated bellow: X100% FN P To obtain the level of the students’ ability in using personal pronoun, the writer used the following criteria: 80- 100 % Very good 70-79% Good 60-69% Enough 50-59% Less 0-49% Fail Finally, in accordance with the writer’s investigation, the students’ ability in using personal pronouns as subject and object is categorized into fair level 48, 73. Therefore, the factors that influence the students’ ability in using personal pronoun as subject and object are: students are not interesting in learning English, the students do not follow the material during teaching and learning English process, the students do not practice their grammar every day, the limitation of English grammar books often influences the students in mastering grammar, the students never review the lesson at home