The students ability in using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions at grade VIII MTsN Batang Angkola.

Siregar, Nurdiana (2012) The students ability in using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions at grade VIII MTsN Batang Angkola. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

The aims of research were to know ability of the students in using conjunctions sentences at grade VIII MTsN Batang Angkola. The difficulties of students in using coordinating and subordinating conjunction at grade VIII MTsN Batang Angkola and the efforts of English teacher in overcoming the difficulties at grade MTsN Batang angkola. In this research, researcher used qualitative approach in the type of the descriptive analysis. There were 34 students of analytical unit from 145 students at grade VIII MTsN Batang Angkola.In collecting data, the research used the instrument of the research are test for students, the test consist of 20 items in multiple choice, and interview and observation for the English teacher and head master. Based on the result of research, researcher found that the ability of second year students at MTsN Batang Angkola in using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions was enough 52,06 category. The students difficult in using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, the students must able to use where put the conjunctions. The students has many vocabularies and never memorizes the vocabularies, needed long time to open dictionary. And the students felt difficult in using conjunctions to correlate independent and dependent sentence, especially in coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. The efforts done by English teacher to overcoming the students’ difficulties of the ability in using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions at grade VIII MTsN Batang Angkola. The English teachers often repeat the lesson and give more examples, which example familiar with students, lives and sometimes the teacher made the example with Indonesian language .The difficulties of students about vocabularies the teacher asked the students to choose the one of the word. Before the English teacher gave the lesson, the teacher asked the late students will write the English words and then they might get into the class and join the lesson.

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