A Descriptive Study on The Students’ Competence in Identifying English Independent-Dependent Clause to The Eleventh Grade Students of State Senior High School 6 Purworejo in The Academic Year of 2010/2011

Abstract

Grammar is one of the basic elements of language. It involves the combination and arrangement of the words based on morphological and syntactic rules in to phrases, clauses, or sentences. Grammar leads us to construct the sentences grammatically correct to convey our messages, so the listener can catch what we mean in our talking and writing. Understanding and mastering grammar are very important for the students. Without mastering grammar well, the students will face serious problem in learning English. To know how far is the students’ competence in identifying independent and dependent clause of the eleventh grade students of State Senior High School 6 Purworejo in the academic year 2011/2012 and to discuss what kind of difficulties faced by the eleventh grade students of State Senior High School 6 Purworejo in the academic year 2011/2012 are. The competence of identifying independent-dependent clause appropriately is fundamental matter to be able to produce sentence well. The researcher’s reason for choosing the topic are to know the students’ competence in identifying independent-dependent clauses for the eleventh grade students of state senior high school 6 in the academic year 2011/2012. The population is the eleventh grade students of state senior high school 6 in the academic year 2011/2012, this population consists 207 into 6 classes. Sample of this thesis consists of 37 students from the natural science program. It takes 20% of the total population. The instrument employed test and questionnaire. The researcher was carried out the data for one day, it was on May 8, 2012. The researcher took 90 minutes in carrying the data of the research. The test given consists of 20 test items of multiple choices and questionnaire consists of four questions that is used to strengthen the information toward the test given to the students. The result of the study, the mean of score is 69.7; its mean of the competence of students in identifying independentdependent clause belongs to good category. the highest score is 90 and the lowest score is 55. The range of the score is 35. Furthermore, the standard deviation is 9.04. By doing this study, the researcher hopes the English teacher will be aware of the problem which faced by the students in producing English sentence well. And the students should be practice to make English sentence.