JudulA SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE IN SENTENCES WRITTEN BY THE EFL STUDENTS OF TADULAKO UNIVERSITY |
Nama: LILIS INDAH SARI |
Tahun: 2023 |
Abstrak ABSTRACT Lilis Indah Sari, A 121 20 039. “A Syntactic Analysis of Constituent Structure in Sentences Written by the EFL Students of Tadulako University”, A skripsi, English Education Study Program, Language and Arts Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Tadulako University, Under Supervision of Sriati Usman and Siska Bochari. The objectives of this research are to find out what the most dominant conjunction is used by the student, to find out what the most difficult conjunction is used by the students, and also to determining why the students are difficult in using correlative and coordinating conjunction in their sentences. The population of this research was the 4th semester students of English education study program at Tadulako university. The sample was selected using simple random sampling technique, and there were 151 students of the 4th semester students. The researcher used quantitative descriptive. The data were collected using test and questionnaire. The results of the data analysis show that: (1) the most dominant conjunction used by the students was coordinating conjunction especially conjunction “and” with the total frequency of 839. (2) the most difficult conjunction utilized by the students was correlative conjunction namely conjunction “both…and”, the frequency of conjunction “both…and” was 286. (3) there are two factors influencing the students in using coordinating and correlative conjunctions which are internal and external factor. Key Words: Syntax; Constituent; Conjunctions |