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STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE PREFERENCES

IN BASIC GRAMMAR CLASSES

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Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of

Sarjana Pendidikan

Beauty Lucky Amelia 112007136

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

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STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE PREFERENCES

IN BASIC GRAMMAR CLASSES

THESIS

Sarjana Pendidikan

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

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STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE PREFERENCES

IN BASIC GRAMMAR CLASSES

THESIS

Sarjana Pendidikan

Approved by:

Nugrahenny T. Zacharias, M.A-ELT, Ph.D Supervisor

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Student ID Number : 112007136

Study Program : English Department

Faculty : Faculty of Language and Literature

Kind of work : Undergraduate Thesis

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Students’ Language Preferences in Basic Grammar Classes

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STUDENTS’ LANGUAGE PREFERENCES IN BASIC GRAMMAR CLASSES

Beauty Lucky Amelia

Abstract

Monolingual approach remains controversy for more than decades in the field of Second Language Acquisition. Along with the perception that the mother tongue can give advantages or disadvantages for EFL learners, this study was conducted to investigate students’ language preference in Basic Grammar classes and the reasons for such language preference which took place in the English Department, Satya Wacana Christian University. It was a quantitative study which involved 120 students. The data collected through questionnaire. Two major findings were found, the first finding was the students preferred ‘English only’ and ‘Dominant English’ in majority. The second was the four main reasons why they chose such preferences, i.e. English as the major study, to make them accustomed with English, understanding difficult material and to avoid miss-interpretation term. Pedagogical implications of the finding will be addressed at the end of the paper.