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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter consists of two parts. The first part deals with the conclusions drawn from the research result and data analysis. The second part presents some
suggestions to the lecturers, the students, and future researchers.
A. Conclusions
The research was aimed to find out the mastery of the non-finite clauses of the sixth semester students of the English Language Education Study Program of
Sanata Dharma University. There were two problems that were discussed in the research. They were 1 What are the errors the students commit in using the non-
finite clauses? and 2 What is the mastery of the non-finite clauses of the sixth semester students of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata
Dharma University? In order to answer the two research questions, a test was used as the instrument of the research. The test was divided into two parts, each part
consisted of fifteen items. The errors committed by the students in the test were classified and discussed further. Besides, the results of the test were used to
determine the students’ mastery in using the non-finite clauses. The errors the students’ committed in each type of subordinate clauses were
classified into several categories. The errors committed by the students in producing the non-finite adjective clauses were 1 the occurrence of finite
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a wrong noun, 5 wrong choice of main clause and subordinate clause, 6 problems between active and passive sentence, 7 retaining the relative pronoun,
8 transforming into wrong types of subordinate clause, 9 inappropriate use of being
+ V-ed, 10 inappropriate use of to be + V-ed, and 11 inappropriate use of –ed participle. Meanwhile, the errors the students committed in producing the
non-finite noun clauses were 1 the occurrence of finite subordinate clauses, 2 transforming into wrong types of subordinate clause, 3 problems in constructing
negative clauses, 4 wrong choice of main clause and subordinate clause, 5 problems between active and passive sentence, 6 lack of genitive case of
pronoun, 7 the occurrence of verbless clauses, 8 confusion to choose either to- infinitive or gerund, 9 problems with clauses derived from question, 10
incorrect use of comma, and 11 problems in perfective construction. The errors in producing the non-finite adverbial clauses were 1 the occurrence of finite
subordinate clauses, 2 the occurrence of verbless clauses, 3 wrong choice of main clause and subordinate clause, 4 transforming into wrong types of
subordinate clause, 5 problems between active and passive sentence, 6 incorrect use of comma, 7 problems with pronoun, 8 problems in constructing
the non-finite adverbial clause in perfective form, 9 retaining subordinator because
for clause of reason, and 10 the occurrence of coordinate clause. From all types of errors committed by the students in constructing the non-
finite clauses, it could be seen that there were some error categories that occurred in each type of subordinate clauses. They were the occurrence of finite
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into wrong types of subordinate clauses, the occurrence of verbless clause, and wrong choice of main clause and subordinate clause. In other words, these were
the common errors committed by the students in producing the non-finite clauses. Meanwhile, based on the results of the test, the mean score was 43.59. This
score had not reached 56 of the maximum score, which was stated to be the minimum standard of mastery. In other words, the students had not mastered the
non-finite clauses. According to the scoring category, this score belongs to the category of poor.
In addition to that, the results of the test also showed the students’ mastery in each type of subordinate clauses. The students’ mastery of noun clauses was
38.90 . The students’ mastery of adjective clauses was 48.72, while the students’ mastery of adverbial clauses was 45.07 . Those numbers revealed that
the noun clauses seemed to be the most difficult type of subordinate clauses and the adjective clauses to be the easiest type of clause to be learned.
To conclude, although the students had learned about the non-finite clauses in semester five, the results of the test showed that the students’ mastery was still
low. The students often made fatal errors; one of them was producing finite clauses. This implied that the students had not had enough knowledge of the non-
finite clauses. The errors mainly occurred in Part B of the test, where the students were required to change two simple sentences in each item to be a good complex
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B. Suggestions
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