The Influenced Factor in Assessing Students’ Grammar Ability at Language Center of Islamic College of Rasyidiyah Khalidiyah Amuntai

Siti Anida Maghfira

Abstract


The mastery of grammar is needed because it used in appropriate place and condition. It is used in science written or in oral at formal forums. Some factors may affect the students understanding in grammar. The factors may become the source of the errors they often make. As we know in Brown’s book, there are many factors that influenced the assessing process, such as students related reliability (temporary illness, fatique, physical and psychological part), rater reliability, test administration reliability and Test Reliability.This study describes about students in language center of Islamic college of RasyidiyahKhalidiyahAmuntai which focuses to know about some factors of students’ mistakes when making sentences by using grammar and influenced the assessing process. This study used qualitative research to observe the factors that influenced students’ mistakes in their grammar class. There were 24 students that consisted of 17 females and 7 males. The students are from Islamic education program, English program and Islamic law program. In addition, the researcher only observed and interviewed the students’ activities to get the data required without any treatment. As a result, the researcher found that factors which influenced students’ mistakes are in students’ illness, fatique, students’ low motivation, their physical and psychological part.

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