AN ANALISYS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS COLLOCATION ABILITY AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MATARAM

Muhammad, Irfan (2021) AN ANALISYS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS COLLOCATION ABILITY AT MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MATARAM. undergraduate thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Mataram.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research were to study the ability of English Students at Muhammadiyah Universityof Mataram about English collocations. A collocation test comprising 50 items, based on seven patterns of Lewis (2000) strategy, was used as a Google form. The results revealed that the students’ ability was low with maximum students Score (82), minimum students score (18) and mean (47). The findings revealed the students’ patterns in noun + noun collocation is (14%), followed by adjective + noun (16%), verb + noun (14%), adjective + preposition (14%), preposition + verb (4%), verb + adverb (16%), and adverb + adjective (14%), and the highest level of Collocation on seventh patterns are adjective + noun and verb + adverb with (16%) value. An analysis of the students’ collocation was conducted and plausible explanations for the attempted. It was found that the sources of the collocation patterns were, for example, the students’ limited knowledge of collocations (Nation, 1992; Howarth, 1998), the students’ application of the strategy of transferring L1 to L2 collocations (Farghal and Obiedat, 1995), the engrossing effect of the source text patterning (Baker, 1992), the students’ application of the strategy of synonymy (Farghal and Obiedat, 1995) and the students’ limited knowledge of cultural-specific collocations (Baker, 1992).

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