Abstract:
The objectives of this research are: (1) to identify the students difficulties
in using conditional sentence and (2) to describe the most difficult types of
conditional sentence used by the students of SMK Ma’arif 6 Ayah.
In this research, the researcher used descriptive qualitative method. The
subject of this research is the tenth grade students (Class XME) of SMK Ma’arif 6
Ayah in the academic year of 2016/2017. She used test and interview as a main
instruments then used questionnaire as supporting instruments in collecting the
data. She takes 30 students as the sample of the research for the test and the
questionnaire. While in the interview, the researcher only takes ten students based
on teacher considerations. The researcher then analyzes the students’ result.
Based on the research findings, it shows that students got the difficulty in
the level of mastery, the difficulty in vocabulary context, the difficulty in the use
of tenses form, the difficulty in memorize the formula, and the lack of motivation
and lack of willingness. Moreover, from the findings that the researcher has done,
conditional sentence type 3 became the most difficult. Based on the test, for each
type of conditional sentence, type 3 is the highest with the total number of wrong
answer are 144 (44.2%), then type 2 with the total number of wrong answer are
106 (32.5%), while type 1 is the lowest with the total number of wrong answer are
76 (23.3%). Added by the result of interview from ten students, eight students said
that conditional sentence type 3 became the most difficult, while the two of them
said that the most difficult is conditional sentence type 2 and type 1
