The ability of the fifth semester of english education department in mastering adjective clause at IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Nasution, Adelia Fitri (2018) The ability of the fifth semester of english education department in mastering adjective clause at IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about the ability of the fifth semester of English Education Department in mastering adjective clause at IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The students problems in this research were: the first, some of students have low ability in adjective clause mastery, they still confused to find the differences the clauses. The second, some of students do not understand about adjective clause well, they have difficulties in identifying the kind of adjective clause. The third, the students did not understand well about relative pronoun. The methodology in this research was mixing of quantitative and qualitative research. The population of this research was the fifth semester of IAIN Padangsidimpuan where they were three classes. Then the sample of this research was 38 students in TBI-1. The sources of the data was stratified purposive sampling technique. The data collection, the researcher used multiple choice test and interview. The students’ ability in mastering adjective clause in the fifth semester of English Education Department at IAIN Padangsidimpuan was categorized into good category or 70,71 score. The description of students’ ability based on indicator using “whose” is the indicator which has lowest score than other 7 indicators (why, which, whose, whom, that, where, and when). There were 59,65% answered correct and there were 40,34% answered incorrect. The Lecturer said that the efforts of the Lecturer to overcome the difficulties in mastery adjective clause was giving extrinsic motivation to the students with give them many exercises and some encouragements to them to learning more about adjective clause.

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