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1.7 The Clarification of the Key Terms
To clarify the meaning of the title, the writer wants to explain the terms as follows :
2. A Descriptive Study
Descriptive is an adjective which means serving to describe, fond of describing. Hornby, 1974:233. Study is a noun which means the act of
studying one or more subjects that attracts investigation. In this study the word descriptive study means to describe the students mastery in using
conjunctions but, and, or, before, and after. 3.
Mastery Complete control on knowledge Hornby : 523. In this final project
meant by mastery is the students knowledge to understand English conjunctions but, and, or, before, and after.
4. Conjunctions but, and, or, before, and after.
Conjunctions are words that join together sentence or part of sentences Curme, 1970:29. In this study the writer choose conjunctions but, and,
or, before, and after.
1.8 The Organization of the Study
The study consists of five chapters. Chapter I is introduction. It consists of the background of the study, the reasons for choosing the topic, the limitation
of the study, the problem of the study, the aims of the study, the uses of the study, the clarificattion of the key terms.
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Chapter II is review of related literature. It consists of the definition of conjunctions, the kinds of conjunctions, the uses of conjunctions, conjunctive
adverb, and semantic implication of coordinating. Chapter III is research method. It consits of the characteristics of the study,
the subject of the study, the technique of collecting data, and thae technique of analysing data.
Chapter IV is the result of the study. It consists of the preparation of the study, constructing the test, the Data Description, the data analysis.
Chapter V is conclusion implication and suggestion.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Teaching English in Senior High School
We know that English is the first foreign language which is taught in Indonesia, as the decree of the Minister of Education and Culture 0961967 says
that ‘Fungsi bahasa inggris di negara kita adalah sebagai alat mempercepat proses pembangunan bangsa dan negara, sebagai alat pembentuk persahabatan bangsa
lain, serta sebagai alat untuk menjalankan politik luar negeri kita’. Depdikbud statement means that the function of English in Indonesia is to accelarate the
development of the country, and to do our foreign policy. English is one of the compulsory subjects at Senior High School.As a
compulsory subject at Senior High School English functions as a means for the students to develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes in areas of science,
technology and arts. So they can participate in the development of the nation. The success in teaching and learning English is influenced by the teacher.
Teaching is an interaction of process between the teacher and the students or group of the students to get knowledge, skill, attitude and to stable what they are
learning. The teacher has quite an important role to make the students succeesful in learning process. Therefore, the teacher must work effectively. Howard
1968:20 suggests that an effective teacher is enthusiastic about his subject, class and job. He enjoys teaching and communicates in English to his students. He does
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not complain about his work or his students. He is creative and flexible. He tries new methods and new tehnique, and he is always on the look for a better way to
do the job. If the lesson does not succeed the teacher tries another approach. The statement above explains that a teacher has the character of enthusiasm, creativity
and flexibelity. He has to encourage to stimulate and to make the students interesting lessons of English.
Ramelan 1994:1 says that “ Teaching English in Indonesia is teaching a language to students whose native language is quite different both
phonologically and grammatically from the foreign language”. It is therefore understandable why it is difficult for Indonesian students to learn English.
Teaching a foreign language is not easy. The problems may relate to the phonological and grammatical aspects of the language. In solving that problem,
teachers need to be creative and inovative. Teachers should always make a great effort in order to be good teachers and effective teachers. If they could not
conduct and manage the class effectively, the purposes of teaching and learning process would not be achieved.
Teaching English at Senior High Schools uses KTSP curriculum. KTSP English curriculum of Senior High School explains about how students
understanding in the text types, such as spoof, report, narrative, analytical exposition, hortatory. Although KTSP curriculum adopts from curriculum KBK,
but the realization of this curriculum does not succesfully because most of the teacher still misunderstand with using KTSP curriculum.
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By the end of the program, the student will have been understood with text types . Every English teacher should serve as a model of good reader, listener,
speaker as well as writer. In addition, English teachers way still need to have a good mastery of the English grammar because they should be able to diagnose
their students. The students get difficulties in using English, the role of grammar has been determined as just one of the components besides, vocabulary and
pronounciation to support the mastery of the language skills and the teaching of grammar as separate teaching ability only be conducted if it is necessary to
support the mastery of the language skills.
2.2 A Brief View of Conjunctions
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