Students’ difficulties in constructing Complex sentences at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak

Lubis, Syahrul Efendi (2012) Students’ difficulties in constructing Complex sentences at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The problems were talking about the students’ difficulties in constructing complex sentences at Grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak, the English teacher effort in overcoming students’ difficulties in constructing complex sentences at Grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak, media the English teacher in teaching constructing complex sentences at Grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak, and method the English teacher in teaching constructing complex sentences at Grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak. The aims of research were to know students’ difficulties in constructing complex sentences at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak, to know English Teachers’ efforts in overcoming students’ difficulties in constructing complex sentences at grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak, to know media the English teacher in teaching constructing complex sentences at Grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak, to know method the English teacher in teaching constructing complex sentences at Grade X SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak. The sources of data were the students, English teacher, and Principle of SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak. The kind of this research was qualitative research by using descriptive method. The instruments of collecting data were observation, interview, and field notes. After the research was done, it could be known the students’ difficulties in constructing complex sentences were the students were still low to comprehend the basic of English subject, some of them did not know to put the relative pronoun in the sentences, the students had poor vocabularies, the students felt difficult to identify the dependent clause and independent clause in a sentence. The efforts was done by the English teacher to overcome the students’ difficulties were: the English teachers should give the lesson and more examples in the study, the difficulties of students about vocabularies, the teacher instructed them to make vocabularies from one of alphabet and the students tried to memorize it, then instructed them to drill constructing complex sentences by themselves at home, at the last students could follow the subject in the courses place. Media the English teachers in teaching constructing complex sentences was Mediatama, as students book in learning English in SMA Negeri 1 Padang Bolak, and method that used by English teacher in constructing complex sentences was English teacher was usually using CIRC method to teach them writing skill. CIRC means Cooperative Integrated Reading Composition.

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