ABSTRACT
This thesis is entitle: “A study on mastering of definite article and indefinite article to
the second year students of Ensino Básico Central (EBC) do 3º Ciclo Fatumeta,
Dili, post administrative of Dom-Aleixo, municipality Dili in the academic year
2023/2024”.
The objective of this research is to know whether or not the second year students of
Ensino Básico Central (EBC) do 3º Ciclo Fatumeta, Dili are effectively to
communicate and use the English definite article and indefinite articles, and English
is as used by the school as a foreign language as stated in the school curriculum. The
writer used quantitative research method to describe the result and to categorize the
students’ grade of effectiveness of the work on definite article and indefinite article.
The sample is used in this study to the second year students of Ensino Básico Central
(EBC) do 3º Ciclo Fatumeta, Dili in the school year 2023/2024. With the total
numbers are 20 students. There were 20 item tests used in this study and all are in
written tests. They are (28%) (56 numbers) of multiple choices, (50%) (50 numbers)
of true or false (, 47%) (47 numbers) of filling in the blanks. Four (4) students were
categorized in high mark from scored 10 to 12 with the total percentages of 11%
from 44 scores. Then eleven (11) were categorized in average mark from ranged
score 7 to 9 with the percentage of (21, 5%) from 86 of students correct answers.
Finally, five (5) students in the second year students of Ensino Básico Central (EBC)
do 3ºCiclo Fatumeta, Dili categorized in the low mark ranged 2 to 6 with its
percentage of ( 5,75% ) from 5 of students correct answers.
Key words: definite article and indefinite articles