VULNERABILITY OF INTERLANGUAGE SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN
SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 1 SURAKARTA
RESEARCH PAPER
Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of Requirements
for Getting the Bachelor Degree of Education
in English Department
By
SHELFI APRI WIJAYANTI A 320 080 227
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VULNERABILITY OF INTERLANGUAGE SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN
SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 1 SURAKARTA
RESEARCH PAPER
Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for Getting the Bachelor Degree of Education
in English Department
By
SHELFI APRI WIJAYANTI A 320 080 227
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
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MOTTO
“If you do things
WELL, do them
BETTER.
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be JUST
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Roddick-DEDICATED TO
My wonderful parents
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&
AGOES EFENDI
whose love has always been a source of hope and guidance in my life
My awesome brother
HIDAYATULLAH SUCAHYO
who lived through the highs and lows of this project with me
.
All Splendid Readers
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ACKNOWLDGEMENT
Assalamu’alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
First of all, the writer wants to express gratitude and presents a big thanks
to her grateful and her merciful Allah SWT for guiding and helping her to finish
her research paper. The writer realizes that the research paper would never be
possible without other people’s help, therefore the writer would like to thank to
people who have supported her personally and professionally over the years and
during the arrangement of this research paper, they are:
1. Dra. N. Setyaningsih, M. Si., the Dean of School of Teacher Training and
Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta,
2. Titis Setyabudi, S. S., M. Hum., the Head of English Department,
3. Prof. Dr. Endang Fauziati, M. Hum., the first consultant, thank you for always
guiding and giving her advice at the whole of her research paper arrangement,
4. Dra. Dwi Haryanti, M. Hum., the second consultant, thank you for suggesting
and correcting her research during the arrangement of her research paper,
5. Drs. Maryadi, M. A., the examiner of her research paper, thank you for giving
her a lot of brilliant thoughts,
7. Koesoemo Ratih, S. Pd. and Rini Fatmawati, Dra., M.Pd., the academic
consultant,
8. Her beloved parents, Sri Widodo and Agoes Efendi, whose contributions to
my education and my life empowered me to contemplate doing this study,
9. Her beloved brother Hidayatullah Sucahyo, whose love empowers me to
complete the study,
10.Her cousin, Danang Warsito, big thank for the tasty and healthy moment,
11.Her aunts, Sujiyati and Suparti, thank you for many inspiring stories they
shared,
12.Her big families in Bali and Boyolali,
13.Her dearest friends and consultants, Fani, Retno, Kelik, and Ika, thank you for
the laugh, advice and encouragement,
14.Her dearest friends, Azizah, Yuni , Attin, Rini, Handa, Rossy, Rutha, Sharas,
Vika, Hepy, Andam, Yani, Citra, Dina, Rani, Arqi, Adin, Anjar, Amin, Andi,
Valdi, Lilik, Badrun, Hari, and all the F.comm peers, thank you for the laugh
and the splendid moments. Your love cannot be precious more,
15.Her dearest friends in English department ’08,
16.Her helper, Bang Mail, big thank for every single helps,
17.Her dearest friends in Bali, Novi, Iis, Marlia, Rina, Ervin, and all Snacollar
peers. You are totally epic, and
18.All people who can be mentioned one by one, thank you for the help although
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Finally, the writer realizes that the research is far from perfect. Therefore,
the writer invites comments and suggestion from the readers for the betterment of
the research paper. Hopefully, this research paper will be useful for those who are
interested in investigating the other element of speaking skill.
Wassalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb
Surakarta, May 2013
The Writer,
ABSTRACT
SHELFI APRI WIJAYANTI. A320080227. VULNERABILITY OF INTERLANGUAGE SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS LEARNING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN SMP
MUHAMMADIYAH 1 SURAKARTA. RESEARCH PAPER.
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA. 2013.
The current research deals with the vulnerability of interlanguage (IL) system of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta students towards the influences of native language/L1 (Indonesian) system and target language/L2 (English) system. The objectives of the research are to identify: 1) how the influence of native
language (Indonesian) linguistic system to the students’ interlanguage system is, 2) how the influence of target language (English) linguistic system to the students’
interlanguage system is, 3) to what extend the students’ native language (Indonesian) system influence their interlanguage system, 4) to what extend the
target language (English) system influence the students’ interlanguage system and
5) the ratio of L1 (Indonesian) influence to L2 (English) influence on the students’ interlanguage system.
The research is a descriptive qualitative research. The data and data source of the research is the erroneous sentences found in English compositions written by two classes of grade VIII students in 2012/2013 academic year in SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta. The data collection techniques are elicitation and documentation. The data analysis techniques are collecting data, identification and list of error, classification into error types, analysis of the source of error, description of the influence degree and drawing conclusion. The writer utilizes the interlanguage (IL) theories by Selinker, Rutherford, Adjémian, Ellis and Corder as well as the error analysis (EA) framework by Shridar, James, and Corder.
The study reveals that the students’ IL systems are vulnerable to the L1 and L2 influences. The L2 influence is having much higher percentage than the
L1’s which implies that the students are in the right track within their IL
developing stages towards L2 system. The results of the study show that (1) the
influence of native language/L1 (Indonesian) linguistic system to the students’ IL
system are involving morphological influence and syntactic influence, (2) the influence of target language/L2 (English) linguistic system to the students’ IL system are involving morphological influence and syntactic influence, (3) the total number of L1 (Indonesian) influence percentage is 32.5% consisting of morphological influence (20.37%) and syntactic influence (12.4%), (4) the total number of L2 (English) influence percentage is 67.47% consisting of morphological influence (55.32%) and syntactic influence (12.4%) and (5) the ratio of L1 (Indonesian) influence to L2 (English) influence is 1:2.07.
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ...1
A. Background of the Study ...1
B. Problem Statement ...5
C. Objective of the Study ...6
D. Benefit of the Study ...6
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CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE ...8
A. Previous Study ...8
1. Ghani’s Study ...8
2. Hobson’s Study ...10
3. Caneday’s Study ...11
4. Lightbound’s Study ...12
5. Position of the Current Study ...13
B. Theoretical Review ...14
1. Interlanguage (IL) ...14
a. Concept of Interlanguage (IL) ...15
1) Composition of Interlanguage ...22
a) Universal Elements ...23
b) Formulaic Elements ...23
2) Interlanguage Continuum ...24
a) Morphological Development ...28
b) Utterance Development ...28
b. Characteristics of Interlanguage ...29
1) Systematicity ...29
2) Fossilization ...30
3) Vulnerability ...31
a) Interference ...33
b) Transfer ...34
d) Evaluating Acquisition ...37
2. Error Analysis (EA) Framework ...38
a. Identification of Error ...39
b. Error Categorizations ...46
1) Comparative Taxonomy ...46
a) Developmental Error ...47
b) Interlingual Error ...47
c) Intralingual Error ...47
d) Ambiguous Error ...50
2) Linguistic Categories ...50
3) Surface Strategy Taxonomy ...51
a) Omission ...52
b) Addition ...52
c) Misformation ...53
d) Misordering ...54
c. Algorithm for Conducting EA ...55
CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHOD ...56
A. Type of the Research ...56
B. Object of the Research ...56
C. Data and Data Sources ...56
D. Data Collection Technique ...57
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CHAPTER IV: RESEARCH FINDING AND DISSCUSSION ...60
A. Research Finding ...60
1. Influence of Native Language (Indonesian) to the Students’ IL System ...61
a. Morphological Influence ...61
1) The Use of L1 Lexical Item ...62
2) The Use of L1 Words with Slight Modification ...63
3) The Use of Mismatch Lexical System ...64
4) The Use of Function Words ...65
a) Omission of Article ...66
b) The Use of Preposition ...67
c) Omission of Verb Auxiliary ...70
5) The Use of Wordy Construction ...71
b. Syntactic Influence ...72
1) The Use of Literal Translation ...72
a) L1 Structure in Phrase ...73
b) L1 Structure in Clause ...74
c) L1 Structure in Sentence ...75
2. Influence of Target Language (English) to the Students’ IL System ...76
a. Morphological Influence ...76
1) The Use of Misspelled Words ...77
2) The Use of False Friend ...78
b) False Friend Caused by Similarity in Meaning .79
c) The Use of Incorrect Conjunction ...88
d) The Use of Verb Auxiliary ...89
e) Addition of Verb Inflection ...90
6) The Use of Affixation ...91
a) The Use of Plural marker ...92
b) Misuse of Present Participle Marker ...93
c) Misuse of Possessive Marker ...94
7) Misformation of Noun Phrase ...95
b. Syntactic Influence ...96
1) The Use of Tenses ...97
2) The Use of Phase Structure ...98
3) The Use of Parallel Construction ...99
4) Omission of Subject in Sentence ...100
5) Omission of Predicate in Sentence ...101
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3. Frequency of L1 (Indonesian) Influence to the Students’
IL System ...105
4. Frequency of L2 (English) Influence to the Students’ IL System ...108
5. Ratio of L1 (Indonesian) Influence to L2 (English) Influence on the Students’ IL System ...112
B. Discussion of the Research Finding ...117
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ...123
A. Conclusion ...123
B. Pedagogical Implication of the Study ...126
C. Suggestion ...131
1. Constraint of the Study and Suggestion ...131
2. Constraint of the Research Finding and Suggestion ...132
BIBLIOGRAPHY ...134
VIRTUAL REFERENCES ...137
APPENDICES ...138
Appendix I : Students’ English Compositions ...139
Appendix II : List of Erroneous Sentences ...140
LIST OF TABLES
CHAPTER IV
Table 4.1 L1 Influence to the Students’ IL System ...106
Table 4.2 L2 Influence to the Students’ IL System ...109
Table 4.3 Ratio of L1 to L2 Influence on the Students’ IL System ...112
LIST OF FIGURES CHAPTER II Figure 2.1 Interlanguage System ...16
Figure 2.2 IL Continuum ...25
Figure 2.3 Psycholinguistic Process of IL ...26
Figure 2.4 Error Identification ...39
Figure 2.5 Notion of Error ...44
LIST OF CHARTS CHAPTER IV Chart 4.1 L1 Influence to the Students’ IL System ...107
Chart 4.2 L2 Influence to the Students’ IL System ...110
Chart 4.3 Ratio of L1 to L2 Influence on the Students’ IL System ...115
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LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix I : Students’ English Compositions ... 139
Appendix II : List of Erroneous Sentences ... 140
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
EA : Error analysis
CA : Contrastive Analysis
IL : Interlanguage
ILs : Interlanguages
L1 : First Language
L2 : Second Language
MT : Mother Tongue
NL : Native Language
NS : Native Speaker
SL : Second Language
SLA : Second Language Acquisition
SLL : Second Language Learner
SLLs : Second Language learners
TL : Target Language
V : Verb
The asterisk (*) : used as an error signal
The tick (√) : indicates well-formedness
