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THE LEXICOGRAMMATICAL QUALITY PERFORMED BY
SOME JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: A CASE STUDY
OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF A CLASS OF
ENGLISH COURSE STUDENTS IN LBPP LIA SURAKARTA
THESIS
Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of Requirement
For the Sarjana Degree at English Department
Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts
Sebelas Maret University
By:
Permita Adi Listiani C1310011
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LETTERS AND FINE ARTS
SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY
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MOTTO
The ability to speak several languages is an asset, but the ability to
keep your mouth shut in any language is priceless
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DEDICATION
This thesis is dedicated to:
My Self
My Dad and My Mom
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost, I praise and acknowledge Allah almighty who created
the universe and knows whatever is in it, hidden or evident, and who bestowed
upon me the intellectual ability and wisdom to search for its secrets. Secondly, my
humblest gratitude to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) whose
way of life has been a continuous guidance for me. This thesis appears in its
current form due to the assistance and guidance of several people. It gives me
great pleasure to express my gratitude to all those who supported me and have
contributed in making this thesis possible.
I would like to thank my thesis supervisor, Prof.Dr. Djatmika, M.A, for his
patience, advice, and immense knowledge. Thanks to him for bearing my mistake
and for his careful editing which contributed enormously to the production of this
thesis. Without his guidance and assistance throughout the process, this thesis
would never been accomplished.
I feel pleasure to express my gratitude to my academic advisor, Drs.
Sugiyarto Budi Waskito, M.Pd for his guidance, motivation, and support during
my study in English Department Sebelas Maret University. I also want to thank to
all lecturers and staff in English Department as well as Faculty of Letter and Fine
Art Sebelas Maret University for all the knowledge they share and assistance
which is very useful for my thesis accomplishment.
My sincere gratitude goes to the management team of LBPP LIA
Surakarta. I want to thank them for giving me permission to conduct the research
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would never gain such fruitful data for this thesis.
I would like to express my heartiest gratitude to my fellow English
Department students for their contribution to this thesis. I thank Rifka, Shofi
Mahmuddah, Chrisinta, Mimi Zulaikha, for their assistance in interview session to
collect the data for this thesis. I thank Januar Arifin, Chandra Christinasari, Canti
Widowati, Stevia Andromeda, for being my grammar police and for their
assistance to keep checking my grammar and my writings. My special gratitude
also goes to Neti Wulandari for voluntarily editing and formatting my thesis as
well as being someone who care about the accomplishment of this thesis more
than anyone else. I am lucky for having them as nice friends and discussion
partners whenever I found a problem throughout the process of writing this thesis.
I would like to thank my classmates, Meti, Rara, Fika, Kusmarni, Tyas,
Puput, Abi, and Tori for all the favor they did including submitting my thesis
when I was not around Solo. I also thank my former coworker Ajeng Widha
Paramitha and Sophia Prawindya for their encouragement and sharing idea about
thesis methodology. I thank them all for sharing me all of their experience and tips
during writing the thesis and for keep motivating me to write my thesis.
I would like to acknowledge my family for their never ending support for
every single thing I did to finish my thesis. My special thanks go to My Dad, Mr.
Wardiyat, and My Mom, Mrs. Sri Lestari. I thank them for encouraging me to
learn as many languages as possible which lead me to dedicate myself to
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other important things. Your contribution is very helpful.
Last but not least, I thank all my friends from all around the globe for their
pray, support, and encouragement to finish this thesis. Every experience that I got
with you surely develops my language skill as well as giving me priceless
knowledge which I can not find anywhere else. I hope this thesis will answer
some of your question about our difference English proficiency level.
I realize this thesis is still far from perfection. Therefore, I wholeheartedly
welcome any suggestion, comments, and criticism from anyone wanting to
improve this thesis. Finally, I really hope that this thesis will be useful for
everyone who reads it.
Surakarta, February 2015
The Writer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE ... i
APPROVAL BY THE THESIS SUVERVISOR ... ii
APPROVAL BY THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS ... iii A. Research Background ... 1
B. Problem Questions ... 7
C. Research Objectives ... 7
D. Research Limitation ... 7
E. Research Benefits ... 7
F. Research Methodology ... 8
G. Thesis Organization... ………9
CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW A. Sentence Structure Analysis ... 10
1. Traditional Grammar Analysis...10
2. Structural Grammar Analysis 11 3. Transformational Generative Grammar Analysis...11
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1. Definition of Grammar ...13
2. English Grammar ...15
a. Major Element of The Clause ...16
b. English Sentence Structure...20
C. Lexical Selection ... 28
1. Lexical Words ...28
2. Function Words ...30
3. Inserts ...37
D. Psycholinguistics ... 37
E. The Status of English in Indonesia ... 39
F. Second Language Acquisition and Learning ... 39
G. Factors Affecting The Success of Second Language Acquisition ... 41
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY A. Type of Research Design ... 48
B. Data Collection Instrument... 48
C. Sample and Sampling Technique ... 49
D. Research Methods and Techniques ... 50
E. Procedure of Data Collection... 50
F. Technique of Analyzing Data ... 51
CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION A. Grammatical Application ... 56
A.1. Complete Structure ... 57
A.2. Incomplete Structure ... 72
A.3. Ambiguous Structure ... 82
B. Lexical Selection ... 93
1. Lexical Word ... 93
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3. Insert ... 112
C. Lexicogrammatical Quality ... 113
1. Grammatical Quality ... 114
2. Lexical Quality... 122
3. Overall Findings of Lexicogrammatical Quality ... 130
D. The Factors Affected Lexicogrammatical Quality Performed by The Participants ... 134
1. Psychological Factors ... 134
2. Social Situation ... 136
3. Age of Acquisition and Critical Period Hyphotesis ... 140
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS A. Conclusions ...142
B. Recommendations ...144
BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 145
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LIST OF TABLE
Table 4.1 Data Sample of Incorrect verb Phrase ... 75
Table 4.2 Data Sample of Incorrect Complement ... 79
Table 4.3 Data Sample of Subject Verb Disagreement... 84
Table 4.4 Data Sample of Tenses Inconsistency 1 ... 87
Table 4.5 Data Sample of Tenses Inconsistency 2 ... 88
Table 4.6 Data Sample of Incorrect Passive Voice ... 89
Table 4.7 Data Sample of Incorrect Conjunction Usage... 90
Table 4.8 Number of Lexical Word Production... 94
Table 4.9 Number of Noun Production ... 96
Table 4.10 List of Misnomer Noun ... 97
Table 4.11 List of Missed Noun ... 100
Table 4.12 Number of Verb Production ... 103
Table 4.13 List of Misnomer and Incorrect Verbs ... 104
Table 4.14 Number of Adjective Production ... 105
Table 4.16 Number of Adjective Production per Type ... 106
Table 4.17 Number of Adverbs Production ... 107
Table 4.18 Number of Conjunction Production ... 108
Table 4.19 Frequency of Conjunction Usage ... 110
Table 4.20 List of Incorrect Conjunction Usage ... 111
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ABSTRACT
Permita Adi Listiani. C1310011. 2014. The Lexicogrammatical Quality Performed By Junior High School Student: A Case Study Of Second Language Acquisition Of English Course Student In LBPP LIA Surakarta. Thesis: English Department, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University.
This thesis is written to discuss about the lexicogrammatical quality performed by 10 (ten) students who took English course in LBPP LIA Surakarta.
The research was conducted to find out the participants’ English grammatical and lexical quality, and the factors affected their performance.
This research adopts qualitative research design in which a case study was conducted to gain the data. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the participants. The data were gained from the participants’ conversation transcripts of their English story telling based on a wordless book entitled Frog, Where Are You by Mercer Meyer. The data are analyzed using sentence structure analysis and lexical selection. The findings are used to find out the factors which affect the participants’ lexicogrammatical quality using second language acquisition approach.
The result of the analysis shows that the participants did not perform the English grammar very well even though they perform quite good lexical selection. Several factors affecting second language acquisition such as psychology, social, and critical age factor are found affecting the participants in performing their English lexicogrammatical quality.
