<![CDATA[Expressing ideas using accurate sentences is commonly a problematic case for freshmen students due to lack ofsentence structure knowledge and inadequate drillings in classroom. It happens because a lot of freshmen students still produce meaningless and unclear sentences in writings. This phenomenon applies to freshmen students ofBina Nusantara University (BINUS), who took English subject in the first semester. Thus, this study attempts toinvestigate whether Sentence Combining Drills can improve sentence accuracy of BINUS freshmen students whotook English Access. For data collection, the study gathered the data from forty eight freshmen students who sharesimilarity in upper-intermediate level of English. The research method will scrutinize the results from the studentsâscores and studentsâ opinions about positive improvements as written in the questionnaires. The study useddescriptive qualitative analysis to discuss the findings. The findings of the research proved that practicing sentencecombining exercises can boost the scores of sentence constructions and improves the quality of studentsâ writing.At the same time, the results of the study are valuable for enriching approaches of teaching academic writing inEFL contexts.]]>
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