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ABSTRACT Asra Laila, 2313.002. Students’ Ability in Using Clause Connector in Compound Sentence at Sixth Semester Students of English Education Department, IAIN Bukittinggi in Academic Year 2016/2017. This research was done because it was found some problems which was faced by sixth semester students of English education department, IAIN Bukittinggi in using clause connector in compound sentence. it can be seen by the mistakes which was done by the students in choosing and using appropriate clause connector in connecting two independen clauses. The kind of this research is descriptive quantitative. Populatioan of sixth semester students of english education department was 125 students, where they are separated into 4 classes. Random sampling technique was used to determine the sample of this research. Researcher took 15% from the population for each class. Total sample from all classes were 20 students. After that, this research used test to find out the students’ ability in using clause connector in compound sentence. This research showed that 60% (12 students) was in enough ability, 25% (5 students) was in low ability, and 15% (3 students) was in high ability in using coordinator connector in compound sentence. Whereas, the percentage of students who answer correctly for each coordinator connector was “for” 25%, “and” 62.5%, “nor” 20%, “but” 67.5%, “or” 62.5%, “yet” 22.5%, “so” 77.5%. Next, in using conjunctive adverb, 60% (12 students) got enough ability, 15% (3 students) got low ability, and 25% (5 students) got high ability. Whereas the percentage of students who answer correctly for each conjunctive adverb was “also” 65%, “besides” 20%, “furthermore” 27.5%, “moreover” 25%, “however” 62.5%, “nevertheless” 20%”, nonetheless” 25%, “otherwise” 25%, “accordingly” 30%, “consequently” 32.5%, “hence” 37.5%, “therefore” 32.5%, and “thus” 30%. Based on the data above, the dominant level of students in using clause connector in compound sentence was in enough level. Whereas the lowest percentage of students who answer correctly in using coordinator connector was “nor”. For conjunctive adverb, the lowest percentage of students who answer correctly for each conjunctive adverb was “nevertheless” and “ besides”.