Detail THE ENGLISH ARGUMENTATIVE PATTERNS OF INDONESIAN STUDENT ESSAYS: A STUDY ON CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC Bibliografi Author: Fitriadi, Tommy ; Sugiharto, Setiono (Advisor) Topik: THE ENGLISH ARGUMENTATIVE PATTERNS Bahasa: (ID )     Penerbit: Unika Atma Jaya     Tempat Terbit: Jakarta    Tahun Terbit: 2007     Jenis: Theses - Undergraduate Thesis Fulltext: Tommy Fitriadi's Undergraduate Theses.pdf (240.14KB; 17 download) Abstract The study of analyzing written text has never been the same again ever since Kaplan (1966) pioneered a study on contrastive rhetoric, which earlier dealt primarily with expository prose but have recently focused on argumentative. Few studies on argumentative texts have been carried out, such as those by Connor (1987), Choi (1988), and Connor and Lauer (1988), and one dealing with Indonesian students is that by Arsyad (2000). Concerning the cross-cultural assessment of first language writing, the IEA Study of Written Communication, beginning in 1982, provides the most valuable information about universal and national topic styles, writing styles and rating criteria. In reflecting on the 10-year study, Alan Purves (1992) comments that despite the careful planning, the study did not succeed in guaranteeing uniform interpretation of topics across cultures: “Indonesian students, for example, tended to interpret all tasks as an invitation to a personal narrative; they would write stories about arguments rather than write arguments” (p. 115). The problem arises in terms of whether Purves’ (1992) comment is generalizable for all Indonesian students. This study will investigate whether Indonesian students tend to interpret all tasks as an invitation to a personal narrative by analyzing English argumentative essays written by Indonesian students in terms of its structure and the speech acts.The subjects of this study were ten female Indonesian students enrolled in Writing III class at the English Department, Faculty of Education, Atma Jaya Catholic University. The data analyzed for this study were taken from students’ English argumentative essays, each of which was analyzed using theoretical framework proposed by Kummer (1972), Tirkkonen-Condit (1984) Toulmin (1958), Aston (1977) and Toulmin, Rieke, and Janik (1979). To ensure the reliability of the scoring, the student argumentative essays were given to two trained native English speaking raters to be scored and the agreement between the raters was relatively high as the reliability of the two judges’ ratings was 0.70. The student argumentative essays were examined using descriptive analysis technique (descriptive statistic).This study found that sixty percent students’ essays had the situation + problem + solution + evaluation sections and ninety percent students’ essays had the claim and justification sub-section, while only forty percent students’ essays had the sub-section of induction in the problem section. This is due to the fact that Indonesian students have been exposed to and as such are familiar with the structure and speech acts of an English argumentative text, except the sub-section of induction. It concludes that explicit instruction plays an important role in making students aware of the new rhetoric not belonging to theirs. With no single Indonesian student essay employing narrative, this finding is in sharp contrast with Purves’ (1992) statement. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Lihat Sejarah Pengadaan  Konversi Metadata   Kembali

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