A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING ENGLISH LEXICAL COLLOCATION
| Main Authors: | Mardiana, Mardiana, Imranuddin, Imranuddin, Mei, Hardiah |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed Archive |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
http://repository.unib.ac.id/15150/1/thesis%20mardiana.pdf http://repository.unib.ac.id/15150/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This research was aimed to investigate students’ ability in using English lexical collocation and students’ familiarity to each type of collocation. The research subjects were third year English department students of Universitas Bengkulu. There were 57 students who participated as the subjects of the research. This research was a descriptive study, in which the researcher used multiple choice test as its instrument. The test was used to obtain the data about students’ ability in using English lexical collocation, and to identify which type of collocation that mostly familiar to students. There were 90 questions. Collocations that presented in this test was divided into 6 types, verb + noun, noun + verb, adjective + noun, adverb + verb, adverb + adjective, and noun + noun. Therefore, each 15 questions referred to 1 type. Collocations that presented in the test were the common and frequent collocations, which mostly appeared in English speaking countries. Students completed the test, and then the result was tabulated in form of tables. The result showed that overall third year students’ ability in using English lexical collocation was enough, with 59.6. These 6 types of collocations were considerably moderately familiar to students. Noun + verb and noun + noun collocations were the most familiar to students, with 2.9. In contrary, verb + noun and adverb + verb collocations were less familiar to students. Therefore, in order to get fluency in English, the third year students of English study program should exposed themselves to collocations area. It was strongly recommended for future researchers to investigate more about students’ ability in lexical collocation, particularly to certain type of collocation. Keywords: Ability, English Lexical Collocation, Students’ Familiarity