AN ANALYSIS OF THE THIRD YEAR STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING CONDITIONAL SENTENCE AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY
Abstrak
Abstract
The aim of this research is to find out the ability of the third year students in writing conditional sentence at English Department of Bung Hatta University. The population of this research was the third year students at English Department of Bung Hatta University. There were 54 students. They were class A and class B. Due to the number of population members; the researcher used total sampling/census sampling. The instrument was writing conditional sentence test. Based on the result of data analysis, the researcher found that the reliability index of the test by using inter rater method was .90. From the result of analyzing the data, the researcher found in general that the students’ ability in writing conditional sentence was moderate. It was proved by the data, there were 13 students (24.10%) classified into very good, 12 students (22.20%) classified into good, 15 students (27.80%) classified into moderate and 14 students (25.90%) classified into bad. Finally, based on the findings, it could be concluded that the third year students’ ability in writing conditional sentence was moderate. So, the English lecturers are expected to give more exercises and real examples in their life to make students more understand. They are suggested to consider some strategies to improve their students’ ability. For the students, they are suggested to do more practices in writing especially in writing conditional sentence to improve their ability.
Key words: Analysis, Ability, Writing, Conditional Sentence