Grammatical Comparison of Noun; Indonesian and Japanese Languages

2010

This research concerns to contrast two languages, Indonesian language as the source language and English language as the target language. And the limitation of problem is focused in contrasting declarative sentence patterns in both languages. However, in this research, the researcher uses Descriptive Analysis as the methodology; she analyzes Indonesian and English declarative sentence patterns, which is categorized into transitive, bitransitive, intransitive, nominal, adjectival, prepositional, and numeral. Then she applies Contrastive Analysis method to contrast the patterns and to find out the differences and similarities. Moreover, the objective of this research is to know the differences and similarities of declarative sentences in the two languages, and also to find out errors that students do more in making declarative sentences. Next, she provides 35 Indonesian declarative sentences used as the instrument to support this research that are translated into English (target language) by 26 students, as the respondents. Finally, the writer concludes that the similarities of declarative sentence patterns between Indonesian and English language found in three categories, those are transitive, bitransitive, and intransitive; however the differences ones found in the nominal, adjectival, prepositional, and numeral category. In addition, she concludes that there are many Indonesian students who learn English language make errors in making English declarative sentences whose different patterns with Indonesian, that are in nominal, adjectival, prepositional, and numeral sentence. In other words, the errors happened among the students caused by interference (negative transfer) they did.

International Journal Corner of Educational Research

This research aims to discover the similarity and differences of Noun Phrase (NP) used in English and Indonesian sentences. This scientific writing used an instrument of report text as the reference to collect data. The report text was taken from a textbook of Developing English Competencies for senior high school. This research demonstrated that when English Noun Phrase was translated to Indonesian, there were changes in syntatic pattern, syntatic category, and meaning. Based on the research results, researchers found several similarities between Indonesian and English Noun Phrases. Similar parts, including head, determiner,and modifier, formed the Noun Phrase. However, there were also differences between them. English Noun Phrase was frequently expanded to the side of the head; meanwhile, in Indonesian, it was expanded to the back of the head. English Noun Phrase consists of a central-determiner (the, a, an); meanwhile, Indonesian Noun Phrase lacks it.

English Community Journal, 2018

This study is aimed at describing the kinds of the English and Indonesian prefixes and suffixes mostly found in the descriptive text of student’s and finding the similarities and dissimilarities. The writer used descriptive qualitative research method. To collect the data, the writer used documentation technique. In analyzing the data the writer used descriptive analysis. After investigating the data, the writer found out four types of English prefix; quantified, locative, temporal, and negation prefixes. English suffixes have four types; nominal, verbal, adjectival, and adverbial suffixes, and five types of Indonesian prefixes; forming verb, forming adjectival, forming noun, forming numeral, and there forming interrogative. The writer also found out thirty two prefixes and suffixes words categorized as English Prefixes and Suffixes, and twenty prefixes and suffixes words categorized as English Prefixes and Suffixes. The writer found out the similarities and dissimilarities. The sim...

International Journal of Education Research and Development

This research aims at determining the similarities, dissimilarities, and possible learning difficulties faced by students learning English and Indonesian nominalization as well as the recommendations to TEFL. The qualitative research design was applied. The documentation technique was used to collect the data. To analyze the data, the researchers used a descriptive analysis. The results showed that there were three similarities and four the dissimilarities between English and Indonesian nominalization found. The three similarities were in suffixation, demonstrative pronominal and conversion. While, the four dissimilarities were in affixation, Adjective reduplication, conversion and To-infinitive. The possible learning difficulties faced by students learning English and Indonesian nominalization was suffixation and confixation which were not very familiar with them. The recommendations of this research was as a fundamental teaching guidance in helping English teachers design a better...

ELT in Focus

The issue of English acquisition in Indonesian context where English is taught as a foreign language has been circulating for years. The presents study aims at contrasting two languages as, Indonesian language as the Source Language (SL) and English as the Target Language (TL). Participants were chosen purposively and generated 10 students of Senior High School. Data were collected through written test. The researcher provides 21 Indonesian declarative sentences as the main instrument. The result of this research was initiated qualitatively. The findings of the study indicate that the similarities of declarative sentence patterns between Indonesia and English language revealed in three categories. They are transitive, bitransitive, and intransitive. Furthermore, the differences are indicated by four categories, those are nominal, adjectival, prepositional, and numeral category. The presents study suggests to initiate the study of contrastive analysis in different languages to obtain...

Anaphora: Journal of Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies

This study is aimed at finding out the similarities, dissimilarities, and possible learning difficulties faced by students learning English and Indonesian singular forms as well as its contribution to TEFL. The researchers used a qualitative research design. The documentation technique was used to collect the data. To analyze the data, the researchers used descriptive analysis. The results showed that there were four similarities and two dissimilarities between English and Indonesian singular forms. The four similarities were in indefinite article, definite article, quantitative adjective, and units of measurement. While the two dissimilarities were in the definite article and definite article. The possible learning difficulties faced by students learning English and Indonesian singular forms were that they were not very familiar with grammar rules and it made them perplexed and created mistakes when writing and speaking. The contribution was as teaching guidance that assists Englis...

Proceedings of the 1st Yogyakarta International Conference on Educational Management/Administration and Pedagogy (YICEMAP 2017), 2017

This study was aimed at analyzing contractive comparisons between Indonesian language and Javanese one. Both languages are belong to the Western Malay Polynesian group, but then have developed under varieties of influences and have experienced differences in some respects. The contrasts between both languages could provide contributions for students whose Javanese and Indonesian learner as their L1 and L2 respectively. For gaining the data of contradictions between Indonesian and Javanese, a survey using contrastive language comparison method was done. The instrument was using network system which contains 500 vocabularies. The data were in the form of descriptive qualitative. The results indicated some contrasts between Indonesia and the Javanese languages. The result of this study is feasible to be used as Indonesian teaching materials based on Javanese language.

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Ling 135 Contrastive Analysis of English

SIBATIK JOURNAL: Jurnal Ilmiah Bidang Sosial, Ekonomi, Budaya, Teknologi, dan Pendidikan

This study aims to discovering contrastive pattern of Bahasa Indonesia and English. In the study, to contrast the noun form of Indonesia and English. Qualitative approach is used in the study. The result shows that there are some differences of plural form of Indonesia and English.In Bahasa Indonesia, plural has six meaning that indicate more than one, the plural form by repeating the root based on the type of reduplication, and the plural form in Bahasa Indonesia are consistent. In English, plural form in English has one meaning that indicate more than one, in writing system, plural form add ‘s’ or ‘es’at the end of the wod, and plural form in English is inconsistent.