Penulis / NIM
I GEDE WIDI HARTA / 321416040
Program Studi
S1 - PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
Pembimbing 1 / NIDN
INDRI WIRAHMI BAY, S.Pd, M.A / 0020088002
Pembimbing 2 / NIDN
SRI WIDYARTI ALI, S.Pd, M.Hum / 0006098201
Abstrak
Abstract
I Gede Widi Harta, 2020. An Analysis of Lexical Collocation Error In Students' Writing: A Case Study at English Department, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. Department of English Education, Faculty of Letters and Culture, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. Advisors (1) Indri Wirahmi Bay, S.Pd, M.A. (2) Sri Widyarti Ali, S.Pd, M.Hum.
Mastering lexical collocation uses in learning English as a foreign language is absolutely essential to develop students' communicative skills and linguistic abilities (Sughair, 2011). Most students, however, have problems with putting words together in a characteristic ��Ã..."natural�� English native speaker-like manner during writing. Students tend to use strange lexical collocation expressions, therefore students' language production does not sound natural and carries imprecise meaning (Abid & Usu, personal communication, September 26th - October 2nd, 2019). With regard to this underlying issue, the main emphasis of the current study was lying on the investigation of the types and the causes of lexical collocation error committed by EFL students in their writing. Through a qualitative research approach applying a descriptive-analytic method, sixteen university students were chosen purposively. The data were collected from two principal sources i.e., students' writing samples and semi-structured interviews. In terms of data analysis technique, this study employed an error analysis technique developed by Ellis (1994) to analyze the obtained lexical collocation errors and applied a content analysis technique provided by Kumar (2011) to analyze the interview results. The present study revealed 54 erroneousness of lexical collocation production consisting of verb + noun/pronoun (PP), adjective + noun, adverb + adjective, noun + noun, and verb + adverb combination. These errors were caused by a lack of collocation competence, native language influence, the use of synonym, overgeneralization, and approximation. These findings indicated that students' collocation competence was still below average despite they have accomplished ample compulsory subjects such as writing subject and English grammar subject. Moreover, there was no special attention devoted to the use of proper collocators, bases, and intended meanings of the combination. As a result, students largely dealt with erroneousness of lexical collocation production specifically in verb + noun/pronoun (PP) combination problem. Therefore, students' collocation competence needs to be fully developed, this can be done by providing more frequent collocation practice opportunities in the learning process.
Keywords: Lexical collocation error, error analysis, content analysis.
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