Murtajiah, 2016. The Students’ Ability in Identifying Part of Speech of Short Story at Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin.Thesis.English Education Department.TarbiyahandTeachersTraining Faculty.Advisor I: Dr. Hj. Nida Mufidah, M.Pd and Advisor II: Nurlaila Kadariyah, S.Ag., M.Pd

Keywords: Identify, Part of Speech, Difficulties.

This research describes the students’ ability in identifying Part of Speech of Short Story at Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin. The problems in this research are: How is students’ ability in identifying part of speech of short story at Antasari State Institute for Islamic Studies Banjarmasin and what are students’ difficulties in identifying part of speech of short story.
The subject of this research is 30 % of the first semester of English Department or 55 out of 183 students. While the objects of this research are students’ ability in identifying part of speech of short story and students’ difficulties in identifying part of speech of short story.
To collect the data, the writer uses some technique such as test and interview. Data processing in this research divided into two phases: testing student ability and difficulties by giving 40 questions divided into 20 for multiple choice 10 for short answer, 10 for matching and interview them. Then, all the data are analyzed descriptively quantitative.
The result of this research shows that the first semester of English Department students’ ability in identifying part of speech of short story can be categorized very excellent with average of total score 81.This research also finds the factors of students’ difficulties in identifying part of speech of short story are less of students’ knowledge about part of speech and students have difficulties in understanding the meaning or translating the word and also because of the students still confused with some of part of speech, especially adverb, preposition and article.