AN ANALYSIS OF THE FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES TO CONSTRUCT COMPLEX SENTENCES BY USING ADVERB CLAUSES AT ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF FKIP BUNG HATTA UNIVERSITY

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to find out difficulties made by the fourth year students to construct complex sentences by using adverb clauses at English Department of FKIP Bung Hatta University. The number of population members was 53 students. The researcher used convenience sampling to select the sample and the total number of sample members was 38 students. The instrument used to get the data was writing sentence test. It was found that the reliability index of the test was very high correlation (0.96). Generally, the results of data analysis showed that 23.24% of difficulties related to writing the independent clause, 29.73% of difficulties related to writing the dependent clause, 17.73% of difficulties related to expressing the relationship between independent clause and dependent clause, and 29.28% of difficulties related to applyning mechanics. Specifically, the result of data analysis showed that 22.33% of difficulties related to writing the independent clause in adverb clause of time, 30.91% of difficulties related to writing the dependent clause in adverb clause of time, 18.78% of difficulties related to expressing the relationship between independent clause and dependent clause in adverb clause of time, 27.95% of difficulties related to applying mechanics in adverb clause of time. Moreover, 24.17% of difficulties related to writing the independent clause in adverb clause of cause and effect, 28.52% of difficulties related to writing the dependent clause in adverb clause of cause and effect, 16.67% of difficulties related to expressing the relationship between independent clause and dependent clause in adverb clause of cause and effect, and 30.63% of difficulties related to applying mechanics in adverb clause of cause and effect. The researcher concluded that the highest percentage of difficulties is related to writing the dependent clause in adverb clause of time and applying mechanics in adverb clause of cause and effect.

Key words: difficulties, constructing, complex sentence, adverb clause.