A STUDY OF THE STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN MASTERING CONDITIONAL SENTENCES OF THE SECOND SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION PROGRAM ON MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/ 2014

Abstract

This thesis is intended to know how far the students’ competence in mastering conditional sentences in the second semester. It is also to know the most difficult type faced by the students. Besides, it is to discuss the students’ efforts in facing the difficulty in mastering conditional sentences. This research is conducted in 28th May, 2014. The participants of this research are 34 students of class A from the second semester students. To conduct this research, she uses descriptive qualitative research; she uses test and questionnaire as the instrument to gain the data. The result of this research shows that the students’ competence in mastering conditional sentences is in fairly sufficient category. 17 students (50%) are in fairly sufficient category; 7 students (20.59%) are in sufficient category; 5 students (14.7%) are in good category; 5 students (14.7%) are in poor category. Besides, the most difficult type of conditional sentences faced by the second semester students is conditional sentences type 3. 25 students (73.53%) say that conditional type 3 is the most difficult type; 7 students (20.6%) students say that conditional sentences type 2 is the most difficult type; 2 students (5.9%) students say that conditional sentences type 1 is the most difficult one. Moreover, the students’ efforts in facing the difficulty of mastering conditional sentences are studying harder, understanding more, practicing more, and ask to others who have capability in conditional sentences.