Wati, Kerisma (2021) An Analysis of Cleft Construction in Undergraduate Thesis of English Education Department Students at IAIN Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research are to investigate the types of cleft construction that are frequently used in undergraduate thesis, to find out the use of cleft construction in undegraduate thesis and to analyze the students’ difficulties in using Cleft Construction in writing undergraduate thesis at IAIN Metro in the Academic Year of 2016/2017. This research is expected to be beneficial in inforning the use of cleft construction. It is because the concept of cleft construction is very important in studying the writing skill.

This research method is a qualitative research. The type of research is a case study. Meanwhile, the qualitative design used in this study is a descriptive study. Data was taken from the primary sources that are ten undegraduate thesis of English department students IAIN Metro in the Academic Year of 2016/2017, particularly in the part of chapter I and chapter II.

The results of this research proved that the most dominant type of cleft construction used in the students’ undergraduate thesis that is it-cleft. In addition, the second research result is about the use of cleft construction in students’ undergradaute-thesis is classified into appropriate and inappropriate use. The appropriate use of it-cleft type was 34 uses (94%). In addition, the appropriate use of wh-cleft type is 100%. Meanwhile, there are 2 inappropriate use of it-cleft type (6%) and the inappropriate use of wh-cleft was not found. Furthermore, the third research result is about the students’ difficulties include of the potential problem with taking cleft clause material to be topical is that it may not be immediately clear how a clause can denote an entity and the difficulties in using cleft construction in the limited form of examples of applying cleft construction in sentences.

Key word: Writing, Cleft Construction, Undergraduate Thesis

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