Ahmad Dahlan Journal of English Studies
Vol 4, No 2 (2017): September

A Study of the Mastery of Complex Sentences of Pre-Service English Teachers

Subekti, Adaninggar Septi ( Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Oct 2017

Abstract

This study reported a research conducted to find out the mastery of complex sentences of students of Writing 5 of an English Education Program in Indonesia. The participants of the research were 24 pre-service English teachers in a Writing 5 class at an English Education program in Indonesia. It used document analysis as the main method of data collection. The study obtained some important findings. First, complex sentences containing multiple clause structures became the most frequently written of all, and among the four types of complex sentences, ones containing multiple clause structures became the most frequently written of all complex sentences. Secondly, students’ mastery of complex sentences containing noun clauses, adjective clauses, and adverb clauses was good. Their mastery of complex sentence containing multiple clause structures, however, was surprisingly very low despite that the students had obtained relatively good results on the three above-mentioned basic types of complex sentence. Keywords: Mastery, complex sentences, noun clauses, adjective clauses, adverb clauses, multiple clause structures

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ADJES

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ahmad Dahlan Journal of English Studies (ADJES), with registered number ISSN 2477-2879 (online), 2356-5012 (print), is a journal which is published by Universitas Ahmad Dahlan. This journal is published twice a year in March and September. We accept mainly research-based articles related to English ...