Improving Freshmen Students’ Sentence Accuracy Through Sentence Combining Drills: a Case Study in Bina Nusantara University
Abstract: Expressing ideas
using accurate sentences is commonly a problematic case for freshmen students
due to lack of sentence 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 of Bina Nusantara University (BINUS), who took English
subject in the first semester. Thus, this study attempts to investigate whether
Sentence Combining Drills can improve sentence accuracy of BINUS freshmen
students who took English Access. For data collection, the study gathered the
data from forty eight freshmen students who share similarity in
upper-intermediate level of English. The research method will scrutinize the
results from the students’ scores and students’ opinions about positive
improvements as written in the questionnaires. The study used descriptive
qualitative analysis to discuss the findings. The findings of the research
proved that practicing sentence combining exercises can boost the scores of
sentence constructions and improves the quality of students’ writing. At the
same time, the results of the study are valuable for enriching approaches of
teaching academic writing in EFL contexts.
Author: Joice Yulinda Luke,
Kristianus Oktriono
Journal Code: jppendidikangg160049
