A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON STUDENTS’ MASTERY IN USING CONJUNCTION OF THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION OF IAIN SURAKARTA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2015/2016
| Main Authors: | Ahmad, Joni Prawoto, Budiasih, S.Pd., M.Hum |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/644/1/10.%20Ahmad%20Joni%20P.pdf http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/644/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Key Word : Descriptive Study, Conjunction, and Mastery Every student has a different capability to master what he/she studies especially in learning conjunction. Some of the students feel that conjunction is not difficult material because they can distinguish the functions of conjunction. There are also students who feel that it is a difficult material. It is important to know whether the students have mastered in using conjunction or not. So, this research is conducted to know how the mastery of the fourth semester students of English Education of IAIN Surakarta and what kinds of difficulties that students usually face in using conjunction. The subject of the research is class H of the fourth semester students of English Education of IAIN Surakarta in the academic year of 2015/2016 that consists of 37 students. The researcher uses test and interview to collect the data. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research to describe the students’ mastery in using conjunction. The using of conjunction will be described in details in this research based on the result of the students test. The researcher analyzes, identifies, and writes a mistake of the students’ examination test and correct the answers based on conjunctions rules. The researcher used methodological triangulation by combining the instruments (test and interview), so the risk of obtaining limited data will be minimized and the validity of the result will be increased. Based on the result of the research, there are 13 students who have good to excellent cappabilities in using conjunction, 10 students who have average to good cappabilities in using conjunction , 9 students who have poor to average cappabilities in using conjunction, and 5 students who have poor cappabilities in using conjunction. So, the students’ capabilities are average to good in using conjunction mastery because they get the average of 65 score. Based on the finding of the analysis, most of the students still have difficulty in using correlative conjunction. There are 14 students who have difficulty in using correlative conjunction. It can be seen from the error that they made in their test. The students have less understanding about the functions of conjunction itself. Some of the students still cannot understand about the context of sentence. There is still repetation of words in combining the sentence using conjunction.