AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN WRITING COMPOUND SENTENCES USING CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

MIA, WINDARI and Lisa, Tavriyanti and Fitrina, Harmaini (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS’ PROBLEMS IN WRITING COMPOUND SENTENCES USING CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to describe the second year students’ problem in writing compound sentences using conjunctive adverbs that add information, give an example, and showing contrast at English Department of Bung Hatta University. Descriptive method was used as the design of this research. The number of population was 24 students. The writer used total sampling technique to select the sample. Writing test was the instrument to get the data. The students were asked to write 15 compound sentences : 5 sentences using conjunctive adverbs that add information, 5 sentences using conjunctive adverbs that give an example, and 5 sentences using conjunctive adverbs that showing contrast. The test was reliable because the reliability of the test was high (0.98). The result of this research showed that generally the second year students at English Department of Bung Hatta University had problems in writing compound sentences. They had problems in writing compound sentences using conjunctive adverbs that add information, give an example, and showing contrast. The first problem the students face was writing compound sentences using conjunctive adverbs that give an example (36.43%), the second problem was writing compound sentences using conjunctive adverbs that add information (36.42), and the third problem was writing compound sentences using conjunctive adverbs that showing contrast (29.22%). Among these problems, the most problem the students faced was in grammar (77.62%), especially in second clause (43.21%). Dealing with the conclusion, the writer suggested to the lecturers to use pictures as the media to teach compound sentences to the students. The students are suggested to do more exercises in writing compound sentences using conjunctive adverbs that give an example by using pictures. The next researchers are expected to find out students’ problems in writing compound sentences in other conjunction such as compound sentences with correlative conjunction, and semicolon

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