Students' difficulties in using relative pronoun of adjective clause at the tenth grade of SMA Dharma Wanita 4 Taman

Adjective clause is an essential item to understand because it concerns to a clause or sentence that plays an important role in English language. It is really familiar for the students. In fact, many students often face difficulties in learning adjective clause especially in using relative pronoun of adjective clause. The purpose of the study is to identify the students’ difficulties in using relative pronoun of adjective clause and to find out the factor causing students’ difficulties in learning adjective clause. This research was a case study and it used descriptive qualitative method to present about students’ difficulties and the factor causing students’ difficulties in learning adjective clause. The subject of the research was fifty seven of tenth grades students at SMA Dharma Wanita 4 Taman, Sidoarjo academic year 2017/2018 who was detected as having difficulties in learning adjective clause. The documenation, interview, and questionnaire were used as data collection technique. The researcher used document (students’ adjective clause’ work), open-endeed interview, and close-endeed questionnaire as instrument of the research. The document and interview used to obtain the data about students’ difficulties in using relative pronoun of adjective clause. Furthermore, the questionnaire used to obtain the data about factor causing students’ difficulties in learning adjective clause. The researcher also did interview with an English teacher to strenghten the data. Based on the result analysis, the tenth grades students of SMA Dharma Wanita 4 Taman found three difficulties in learning adjective clauses, those were: comprehension, using unnecessary pronoun, and using the wrong relative pronoun. The findings showed that the students had more difficulties in using wrong relative pronoun, it can be seen from the problems they had gotten in using wrong relative pronoun. Then, they had some problems in comprehension of adjective clause. The last, they had problems in using unnecessary pronoun. The finding also showed that there were 3 factor causing students difficulties ; motivation, teaching method, and educational background. In conlucion, there were still many difficulties faced by students in learning adjective clause. It indicates that the students did not understand well about adjetive clause. Some suggestion were given to the teacher that the teacher shoule give more detail explanation about adjective clause. The teacher should be more active to increase students’ motivation in learning adjective clause. The teacher also should give clear examples in each relative pronoun because it is really complicated for the students