AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES IN PASSIVE VOICE AT ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

This study aims to determine the students' difficulties in passive voice among the
third-semester students of English Education at the University of Bengkulu. This
study used a descriptive quantitative method. The sample from this study was 40
students in the third-semester of the English Education Study Program. The
instrument used is a passive voice test and interview. This study used simple
statistics (percentage and average) to analyze the data. The results of this study
indicate that the majority of students experience difficulties in passive voice.
Found 805 obstacles in the test. The students' difficulties themselves were
difficulties in the use of “be” form (28%), V3 changes (25%) and Subject to Object
Changes (14%). Students have difficulty in understanding passive voice pattern
and did not know the term of passive voice themselves. Moreover, students also
could not identify the subject and verb in the sentence, lacked vocabulary, did not
practice often, and did not re-check the wrong answers. Thus, students experience
difficulties in passive voice.
Keywords: students’ difficulties, p