The Mastery of Using English Conjunction in Compound and Complex Sentences of the Eleventh Year Students of SMK Taman Siswa in the Academic Year 2007/2008

The Mastery of Using English Conjunction in Compound and Complex Sentences of the Eleventh Year Students of SMK Taman Siswa in the Academic Year 2007/2008

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The Mastery of Using English Conjunction in Compound and Complex Sentences of the Eleventh Year Students of SMK Taman Siswa in the Academic Year 2007/2008

Language as a means of communication plays an important role in our life. English is an important language for us because it is used in many countries throughout the world, including Indonesia. As we know that, English is also used as a medium in studying, exploiting, and also developing technology and science. As far as we know that, In Indonesia, English has been taught in Elementary School, Junior High School, Senior High School, and the first grade in University. In English teaching, students sometime found difficulties in using English Conjunction in Compound and Complex Sentences. Many of them have difficulties to understand the construction of the English Conjunction in Compound and Complex Sentences. The writer is encouraged to analyze such the phenomenon. The writer would like to know The Mastery of Using English Conjunction in Compound and Complex Sentences of the Eleventh Year Students of SMK Taman Siswa in the Academic Year 2007/2008.

This research is carried out to: (i) to know the mastery of using English coordinate conjunction in compound sentences of the eleventh year students of SMK Taman Siswa in the academic year 2007/2008 (ii) To know the mastery of using English sub ordinate conjunction in complex sentences of the eleventh year students of SMK Taman Siswa in the academic year 2007/2008.

This research uses the qualitative approach. In addition, this research uses descriptive method. Since this research gives description about the The Mastery of Using English Conjunction in Compound and Complex Sentences of the Eleventh Year Students of SMK Taman Siswa in the Academic Year 2007/2008. The population in this study is all the Eleventh Year Students of SMK Taman Siswa in the Academic Year 2007/2008. The instrument that is used in this test is test. The result of the data analysis is described in order to provide description of The Mastery of Using English Conjunction in Compound and Complex Sentences of the Eleventh Year Students of SMK Taman Siswa in the Academic Year 2007/2008.

From analyzing the data of this research, it was obtained that; (i) The mastery in constructing compound sentence using coordinate conjunction of the eleventh year students of SMK Taman Siswa Kudus in the academic year 2007/2008 is sufficient with the mean of the student’s score is 71.08. (ii) The mastery in constructing complex sentence using subordinate conjunction of the eleventh year students of SMK Taman Siswa Kudus in the academic year 2007/2008 is sufficient with the mean of the student’s score is 73.43.