Main Results The Students’ Progress in Constructing Compound Sentences
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17 Australia note
20.00
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18 Brazil note
37.50
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19 Europe 43.75
0.00 Succeeded
20 Russia note
30.00
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Average of error percentage
36.46 22.88
Decreased
Note: The student did not construct any compound sentence
The student did not join the learning process All names were artificial names.
According to Table 4.1, it could be seen that error percentage of students‟
writing skills in constructing compound sentences decreased. The average of the error percentage in first cycle was 36.46 and 22.88 in second cycle. From the
results, it could be seen that there was 13.58 decrease of the students‟ error
percentage from the first cycle to the second cycle. It m eant that the students‟
error in constructing compound sentences decreased from the first cycle to the second cycle. In other words, the students had developed their writing skills in
constructing compound sentences by using jumbled-word game. From the Table 4.1, there were 11 students who got good results in
improving their writing skills to construct compound sentences by doing the jumbled-word game before. Meanwhile, there were only three students who did
not get good results yet. Three of them got 0 of error in the first cycle, but they could not get the same result in the second cycle. Besides, there were six students
who did not get any result since they did not join the learning process, and two of them did not write any compound sentences in the first cycle. Thus, it could be
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concluded that more than half students had improved their writing skills in constructing compound sentences.
In the first cycle, the result was really poor. Most students did not put any separating marks comma after coordinating conjunctions. There were also some
students who only wrote few numbers of compound sentences. Based on the data presented in Table 4.1., it could be seen that the error percentage average was
36.46. In the second cycle, the result was satisfying. The average of error percentage decreased into 22.88. Even though it was only 13.58 reduction of
the error percentage average, it had shown great improvement of students‟ writing
skills. The average of correct compound sentences was 77.12; it meant that most of the students could construct compound sentences correctly. Based on the
results, it could be concluded that the average of error percentage decreased. In other words, the students‟ writing skills in constructing compound sentences had
been developed.