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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter discusses the research findings and discussion. This part consists of three parts. The first part is the data presentation from the administered test including the presentation of the students’ achievement. The second part is the data analysis and the last part is the discussion which is dealing with the research questions.

A. Data Presentation

The data of this study were collected from the test and questionnaire which were administered to two classes of the fifth semester students of the English Language Study Program of Sanata Dharma University in the academic year 20102011 on October 4 th , 2010. Therefore, this part consists of two parts. The first part is the data presentation of the test and the second part is the data presentation of the questionnaire.

1. The Test

The test consisted of two parts and each part consisted of fifteen items. In the first part, the students were required to put the given verbs into the correct forms. The objective of this part was that the students were able to recognize which type of conditional sentences used in the questions and demonstrate the correct pattern of conditional sentences. In the second part, the students were required to make conditional sentences based on the given facts. The objective of 35 this part was that the students were able to recognize the correlation between the fact and the conditional sentences and demonstrate the correct pattern of conditional sentences based on the given facts. The detailed information about the students’ achievement in the test was presented as follows.

a. The Students’ Achievement in Each Part of the Test

The data of the students’ achievement in Part A of the test was presented in Table 4.1. The score was determined from the total correct answer and then it was divided by the total number. After that, the result was multiplied by 100. Table 4.1: The Students’ Scores in Part A Range of Scores Number of Students Achieving Range of Scores 90-100 80-89 70-79 60-69 50-59 40-49 30-39 20-29 10-19 0-9 1 5 2 9 6 17 7 7 2 1 From Table 4.1, it can be seen that the seventeen students achieved 40-49. The highest range of score was only achieved by one student. On the other hand, there was the lowest range of scores which was 0-49 and it was achieved by one