An Analysis of the Second Year Students’ Ability in Writing Complex Sentence by Using Adjective Clause at English Education Department of Bung Hatta University.

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Writing as one of language skill is an important skill for the students because without writing the students cannot know the structure of sentence. According to Lyons and Heasley (2006), writing is a very complex process involving the ability to communicate in a foreign language (English) and the ability to construct a text that expresses the writer’s ideas effectively. In learning writing and grammar, there are eight parts of speech that students in English Education Department learn one of which is adjectives. Adjective clause has been investigated by previous. Utama (2017) investigated The Third Year Student’ Problems in Writing Complex Sentence Containing Adjective Clause at English Department of Bung Hatta University. After analyzing the data he found 2834 problems faced by the students in writing complex sentences containing adjective clause. Based on the explanation above, the researcher was interested to do a research about adjective clause. Accordingly, the research is entitled An Analysis of the Second Year Students’ Ability in Writing Complex Sentence By using Adjective Clause.

The population of this research was the second year students of Bung Hatta University. The total number of population was 23 students. The instrument used to get data was writing sentence test. To have reliable data, the researcher used inter-rater technique. The result of analysis showed that the test was reliable. It was supported by the fact that the coefficient of correlation was .98. Then, the test had content validity because it had covered all materials which students had learnt.

            The result of the data analysis showed that the students’ ability in writing complex sentence by using adjective clause at English Department of Bung Hatta University was very good. It was proved by the fact that 14 students (61%) had very good ability, 8 students (35%) had good ability, 1 student (4%) had moderate ability and 0 students (0%) had low ability.

            Based on the findings, it can be concluded that ability of the second year students at English Department of Bung Hatta University was very good. The researcher suggests the lecturers to review the material about adjective clause, especially in using relative pronoun as possessive, the researcher  suggests the lecturers to emphasize the use of mechanism for students and give more exercises. The students are suggested to do more exercises. The researcher also suggests the next researcher to analyze why the findings of this study are different from the previous study.

Key Words: Writing, Complex Sentence, Adjective Clause, Relative Pronoun.