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game the students can also be more active and enthusiastic in following the learning process. As a result, the students are able to produce good sentences of
both compound and complex.
4. Other Researchers
The research provides some information that can be used for other researchers in conducting research which focus on using games in learning other
English sentence structures. Through this research, other researchers are able to develop more activities and improve the media in the implementation of jumbled-
word game.
E. Research Objective
Considering the research problem, the objective of this research is to implement the technique of using jumbled-
word game to develop students‟ writing skills to construct compound sentences.
F. Definition of Terms
In order to avoid misunderstanding or misinterpretation, the researcher used some terms in this study. They are explained as follows.
1. Writing
Writing is one of four English language skills. Nunan 2003 says that writing is about finding an idea and then expressing the idea by organizing it into
statement and paragraph in order. Hornby 2003 also reveals that writing is producing something in written form so that people can read and perform it or use
9 it to express a certain idea. In addition, Silva 1990 states that “…writing is
regarded as an extension of grammar – a means of reinforcing language patterns
through habit formations and testing learners‟ ability to produce well-formed sentences as cited in Hyland, 2003, p. 3. It can be said that writing is a process in
developing ideas into written products. In this research, the product of writing is in the form of sentences
– grammatical thing.
2. Compound Sentences
According to House and Harman 1950, a compound sentence is defined as a sentence which is composed of two or more coordinate principal
independent clauses p. 421. English sentence structures are simple sentence, compound sentence, and complex sentence. A compound sentences is formed by
joining one simple sentence independent clause to another simple sentence independent clause using connecting words called „conjunctions‟ University of
New England, n.d., p. 1. Similarly, Miller 2002 adds that compound sentences consist of two or more clauses joined by conjunctions p. 62. Thus, compound
sentence is a sentence which contains of two independent clauses and connected by conjunctions.
3. Classroom Action Research CAR
Classroom Action Research is any systematic inquiry conducted by teachers, researchers, principals, school counselors, or other stakeholders in a
teaching-learning environment to gather information about the ways that their particular schools operate, how they teach, and how well their students learn
Mills, 2011, p. 5. Classroom Action Research is research that is conducted to
