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

Authors

  • Adaninggar Septi Subekti Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26555/adjes.v4i2.6399

Keywords:

English Language Teaching, Linguistics

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

Author Biography

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

Obtaining her M.Sc. in TESOL from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, the author, who obtained her Bachelor of Education from Sanata Dharma University, currently works as a lecturer at the English Education Department of Duta Wacana Christian University. Her research interest includes learners’ individual differences, Global Englishes, applied linguistics, language teaching methodologies, and critical literacies and pedagogies in L1 and L2 contexts. Throughout her teaching career, she has taught students from various levels of education, including teaching ESP to non-English teachers of High Schools, and university lecturers. Though her specialty is in English teaching, she was once also a teacher of Indonesian language at Arizona State University from 2013 to 2014. 

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2017-10-28

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017): September

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