Competence of Education Students in Using Tag Question

Abstract

This study sought to determine the competence level of junior Elementary Education students in using tag question. Descriptive design was used in this study with the complete enumeration of the respondents. The main instrument used in gathering data was in a form of a questionnaire which was adapted. Whereas, the statistical tools frequency distribution, percentage, Spearman Rho Correlation and Chi-Square were used in the analysis of data. Findings showed that the respondents graduated from public school. They preferred books as their English reading materials. As for the grades of the respondents, majority of them described as very good. performed low in editing sentences. In addition, the competence level of the respondents was described as moderately competent. Therefore, it is recommended that Education students should have an in-depth learning in sentence structure to level up their competence in using tag questions and instructors should come up with effective strategy that motivate students in learning sentence structure with tag questions so as to help them increase their competence.