THE DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING CONJUNCTION IN GUIDED COMPOSITIONS AT SMPN 2 AMBULU JEMBER

Abstract

The research area was SMPN 2 Ambulu that was chosen purposively under some considerations. The English teacher had taught conjunction in guided composition to grade VIII B students ; there was no research that had been conductted in the school about the description of student ability in using conjunction in guided writing done in the school; the school Principal and the English teacher had granted permission to conduct this descriptive research in that school. The respondents of this reseach were the students class VIII E. The result of the descriptive study showed in the data analysis, there were 27 students or 87,10% had excellent classification in gaining the score between 80- 100, there were 3 student or 9,68% who had good classifiaction in gaining score between 70-79. Then the failed classification was 1 student or 3,23%. So, it could be concluded that the student’s abilty in using conjunctions in guided composition was excellent. In details the result of the students’ guided composition test of each indicator were as follows. 1. The student’s abilty in using coordinating conjunctions of cumulative in guided composition is 83, 23% or excellent 2. The student’s abilty in using coordinating conjunctions of adversative in guided composition is 81, 94% or excellent 3. The student’s abilty in using coordinating conjunctions of disjunctive in guided composition is 84, 52% or excellent 4. The student’s abilty in using coordinating conjunctions of illative in guided composition is 85, 16% or excellent