ANALYZING CHALLENGES IN GRAMMATICAL KNOWLEDGE FOR EFL STUDENTS: Descriptive Quantitative Study

This research aimed to find out what challenges were faced by EFL students at the English Department Muhammadiyah University of Makassar in their grammatical knowledge.This research used descriptive quantitative. The population of this research was the fourth semester of the English Department Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The sample or the subject of this research was 50 students taken by accidental sampling technique. The researcher used the questionnaire as the instrument of this research.The result showed that challenges were mostly found by the students in developing their grammatical knowledge were: do not know how to organize the sentences to be a good paragraph, lack of self-confident, lack of vocabularies, lack of tenses and the biggest challenges were learning environment was too crowded, limited of time and lack of facilities.


INTRODUCTION
Learning English as a foreign language became more challenging, not only for the learners but also for the educators. Akbari (2015) says that "Teaching English as a foreign language is one of the obstacles task in developing countries in general. In this modern era the English language became a more important aspect to be mastered by some people, especially in the whole world of education and also in the whole world of work, English is the most commonly used after the local language itself. Nowadays in the whole world of communication, the situation sometimes forced us able to speak English fluently. That is why English language becomes very important to be learnt, to be able to speak English properly there are several aspects that should be learnt not only about major skills (speaking, listening, writing and reading) but minor skills (vocabulary, structure and grammar) also became more important aspects to be mastered.
Grammar is one of minor skill in English. Grammar became one of the most crucial aspects in learning English. This also supported by Dewi (2014) says that "grammar becomes one of the parts that is important when we study English It cannot be separated from English itself". Many people think that knowledge of According to the experts above, it can be concluded that grammar is the way to organize words by words to be good senrence and where the sentences are combined to be a good paragraph.
The Importance of Grammar. Muhsin (2015) stated that there are some advantages of studying grammar, those were: a. Grammar is a fundamental part of preparing for examinations.
b. Excellent grammar makes someone be good listener, interpreter, reader and author.
c. Excellent grammar builds up our style. d. Logic and reasoning.

Challenges in Developing Grammar
According to Yusof (2018)

Data Analysis
In analysing the collected data, the researcher applied Likert scale scoring to know the students challenges in grammatical knowledge. After that, Computing the frequency of the rate percentage of the students' score by using the percentage system. The next step the researcher calculating the students' mean score from the questionnaire items. 7 or 14% students whose answered disagree and 2 or 4% students strongly disagree with the statement.

Findings
The second result showed that there were 50 students respond "I feel worry if the other students will laugh at me when I make a mistake in making English sentences''.The result indicates 11 or 22% students whose answered strongly agree with the statement, 22 or 44% students answered agree and 5 or 10% students were undecided with the statement. Meanwhile, there were 7 or 14% students whose answered disagree and 5 or 10% of students strongly disagree. It showed that most of the students still afraid of being judged.
The third result showed that there were 50 students respond "My vocabulary is minimal; therefore I have difficulties in making sentences". The result from the questionnaire indicates that there were 20 or 40 % students whose answered strongly agree, 17 or 34% students whose answered agree and 7 or 14% students answered undecided. Meanwhile, there were only 5 or 10% students disagree and 1 or 2% student strongly disagree with the statement. It showed that there were 37 or 74% from 50 or 100% students still lack vocabularies, so they cannot make good sentences or paragraph in English.
There were 50 students respond "I don't know how to distinguish the use of all tenses in English". The result indicates that there were 25 or 50% students whose answered strongly agree, 11 or 22% students answered agree, 6 or 12% students answered undecided, 5 or 10% students whose answered disagree and there were 3 or 6% students answered strongly disagree. It can be concluded, that there were many students did not know how to distinguish the use of all tenses in English.
There were 50 students respond "The atmosphere in the class makes me bored in learning grammar". The result indicates that there were 25 or 50% students answered strongly agree, 5 or 10% students whose answered agree, 7 or 14% students answered undecided, 6 or 12% students were answered disagree and 7 or 14% students whose answered strongly disagree. It meant most of the students agree with the statement.
There were 50 students respond "My learning environment is too noisy so that I cannot learning grammar properly". The result from questionnaire indicates that there were 40 or 80% students whose answered strongly agree, 5 or grammar we cannot be a good hearer, interpreter, reader and author. Words are only words when we do not know how to make them have great meaning.

The learning environment was too crowded
The second challenge is most of the students agree with the statement of learning environment is too noisy, so they cannot learn the grammar correctly. This statement also supported by the researcher experience as the student at Muhammadiyah University of Makassar, the researcher stated that place is too crowded of people so we cannot learn properly. It also supported by Akbari (2015) stated that the students not able to practice properly if the classes are too crowded, they don't know how to overcome the problem of language learning and also they do not know how to communicate each other.

Lack of vocabularies
One of the biggest challenges faced by the students to develop their grammatical knowledge is lack of vocabularies; it supported by the data from the questionnaire result. Most of the problem faced by the student in learning English including grammar is vocabulary, they didn't know many vocabularies, so it can make the students hard to express their ideas in English. It supported by Akbari (2016) stated that limited vocabulary knowledge is one of the problems faced by the EFL students at Iran in learning English grammar.

Lack of facilities
According to the questionnaire result, lack of facility and also lack of tenses knowledge were the biggest challenges faced by the EFL students at English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. Lack of facilities made the students difficult to develop their grammatical knowledge, many of them argued that facilities are one of the biggest challenges in developing their grammatical knowledge, because they don't have enough facilities to learn more about grammar, it supported by the data from the interview. Meanwhile, according to Akbari (2015) also stated that one problem faced by the students in learning English is a facility, most of the students have textbooks only as the tools to learn English.

Lack of knowledge of tenses
The other challenge is lack of understanding of tenses, lack of tenses made the students difficult to learn grammar because they cannot organize the sentence based on the rules or formulation of tenses. It supported by the data from the questionnaire result and Effendi et al. (2017) who said that the difference between the structure of English and Indonesian language made the students difficult to understand how to write in English by using good structure.

Lack of self-confident
The next challenge is lack of self-confident; most of the students at University Muhammadiyah of Makassar failed in grammar because they lack confidence, it supported by the data from the questionnaire result. The students feel a lack of confidence because they were afraid if they made a mistake. And afraid of being judged by their friends, so it makes the students feel a lack of confident.

Limited of time
Limited of time also one of the biggest challenges faced by the students in learning grammatical knowledge at English Department Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. It also supported by the researcher's experience as a student at University, because there are too many activities that should be run together sometimes make us difficult to learn more properly at the same time.

CONCLUSION
Based on the findings and discussion, it can be concluded there were some challenges in developing grammatical knowledge by EFL students of the English Department Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The result showed that problems were mostly found by the students in their grammatical knowledge were: they don't know how to organize the sentences to be a good paragraph, lack of self-confident, lack of vocabularies, lack of tenses, and the most significant challenges were; learning environment was too crowded, limited of time and lack of facilities.