The Students’ Ability in Using Conjunction Of The Sixth–Semester English Department Students In The Academic Year 2011/2012

Abstract

English parts of speech consist of eight parts. Conjunction is one of the parts of English part of speech. There are four types of conjunctions namely coordinate conjunction, correlative conjunction, conjunctive adverb, and subordinate conjunction. Every conjunction has its own rule to use. English students have to master every types of conjunction especially for sixth semester students. This thesis mainly discussed the students’ ability in using conjunction. The researcher used test to measure the students’ ability in using conjunction. The researcher also used questionnaire to find out the difficulty in using conjunction and the students’ effort in increasing their ability deal with conjunction. By conducting this research, the researcher found that the students’ ability in using conjunction belongs to fair category. The difficulties are faced by the students such as not understand the meaning of the conjunctions, not know and understand how to use conjunctions, not able to decide which conjunction they should use, not understand the punctuation related to the use of conjunctions, and do not know the function of some conjunctions. The effort that students do to increase their ability in using conjunction like, studying grammar, reading the books about conjunction, trying to write, sentences using conjunction, reading the original text from native., learning the use and the function of conjunction, doing the exercises about conjunction, and asking to their friend who knows better about conjunction.