ABSTRACT

Indah, Mirza. 2021. The Ability in Determining Appropriate Reference Words From Reading Texts in The Flipped Materials About Wetlands of Economic Education Students Batch 2020. Sarjana’s Thesis, English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teachers Training and Education, Lambung Mangkurat University. Banjarmasin. The first advisor: Elivina Arapah, M.Pd., the second advisor: Dini Noor Arini, M.Pd.

Keywords: Students’ ability, Reference words, Flipped materials.

            Reference Words is one of the cohesive devices that connect words and sentences in text through grammatical means. Moreover, the students of Economic Education Program are often have to comprehend texts for the recognition of the reference words. Therefore, the researcher concludes the purpose this research is entitled “The Students’ Ability in Determining Appropriate Reference Words from Reading Texts in the Flipped Materials about Wetlands.

This research used descriptive quantitative design. The population of this research was the students of Economic Education Study Program batch 2020. Random sampling was used in this research, the sample was the the students of Economic Education Study Program batch 2020 who took the English General Subject. The results of this research are most mastered type of reference words by the Economic students’ was the referential and attributive use and the anaphoric reference that proven by students who achieved the score above 50 by the frequency 7% and 3% for each of the types and still need to be improved. Moreover, the most difficult type of reference words to mastered by the data were significant of co-text and name and referent that proven by the low score below 50 by the frequency 100%.

Therefore, ability of Economic Education students’ batch 2020 at Lambung Mangkurat University in determining correct reference words in the text about Wetlands was considered as a very low ability. It is suggested to the students’ to understand the importance of improving their ability in determining correct reference words in a text and keep studying more to improve their ability.