STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN USING COORDINATE CONJUNCTION IN COMPOUND SENTENCES WRITING AT SMPN 1 WONOSOBO IN THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018

DEVIYANA, VERA (2018) STUDENTS’ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN USING COORDINATE CONJUNCTION IN COMPOUND SENTENCES WRITING AT SMPN 1 WONOSOBO IN THE FIRST SEMESTER OF THE EIGHTH GRADE IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2017/2018. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Raden Intan Lampung.

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Abstract

English is known as one of many language in the world, so English language teaching has an important role in improving language skill. There are four skills in English such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing. One of the English skills is writing. In written form, grammar is one of the important thing to make a good writing. the students were having difficulty in learning writing. However, most of students in SMPN 1 Wonosobo had low writing skill especially in using coordinate conjunction in compound sentence such as; they were confused how to use coordinate conjunction in the form compound sentence and how to make the good sentence in the form compound sentence. Therefore, the objective of this research were to know the types of error and the most of students’ ghrammatical error in using coordinate conjunction in compound sententeces writing. Research methodology used is descriptive qualitative method. This research was conducted at SMPN 1 Wonosobo. The writer choose class VIII. In taking the sample, the writer used purposive sampling technique. The data were collected from document of the students’ writing task. The students were asked to make three compound sentences using coordinate conjunction: And, But, and Or. The result of this research showed that there are 47 errors in sentences writing task which consist of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The highest percentage of the errors belong to misformation categorized (72,34%). The second percentage waas omission categorized (17,02%). The third percentage was addition categorized (8,51%). The last percentage was misordering categorized (2,13%). It means that the most students’ grammatical errors in using coordinate conjunction in compound sentences writing were misformation error.

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