Transitional words in essays written by the students’ 4th semester of english education Department at IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

Oktapian, Ardi (2014) Transitional words in essays written by the students’ 4th semester of english education Department at IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

Writing is one way of communication that enables people to communicate with others through a written text. As a way of communication, writing must be effective; and one requirement of an effective writing is coherence. One way that can make a writing being coherent is by using transitional words that has a function to tie the ideas together. Dealing with the use of transitional words; this research tries analyzing the use of transitional words in essay written by the students’ fourth semester academic years 2012/2013 English Education Department of Tarbiyah dan Pedagogy Faculty at IAIN Padangsidimpuan, and their difficulties in using transitional words in essay written. This research used descriptive qualitative research because the researcher discussed, analyzed and found the phenomena which occur naturally. In this research, the researcher analyzes used essays and then classified them based on their types. After finding the transitional words used, the researcher finding their difficulties in transitional words at their essays written. Then the researcher describes the way the students’ difficulty in using transitional words in those essay. The finding of the analysis is then discussed and presented in the form of table and words. After analyzing the data, the researcher found the students’ using transitional words in essay written as follow: for transitional words of chronological order they used 41 words. For transitional words of order of importance they used 1 word. For transitional words of addition they used 30 words. For transitional words of cause and effect they used 40 words. For transitional words of comparison and contrast they used 11 words. For transitional words of giving example they used 7 words. Than, they didn’t use of transitional words for conlusion. Dealing with the second problem, it is found that, their difficult dominantly in using transitional words for conclusion, transitional words for order important, transtional words for giving example, there are found based on their the result of students essay written . Dealing with the thirth problem, the students’ low motivation and self confidence, low in vocabulary mastery, less background knowledge or education affects their performance, less of English lecturer, students’ do not provide good English Education Department laboratory, and less English books.

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