Dependent clauses used in Jakarta post newspaper articles (revisited)  

Oleh:

Harsono, Y. M.

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 16: Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Keenam Belas Tingkat Internasional, page 512-515.
Topik: dependent clauses; newspaper articles; Jakarta Post
Fulltext: 512-515 Y. M. Harsono.pdf (332.29KB)

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This paper would like to describe various types of dependent clauses in English including among others relative/adjective clause, noun clause, conditional clause, and adverbial clause. The background of the study refers to the fact that English contains many complex sentences involving the use of such dependent clauses. Consequently learners of English have to learn those dependent clauses in order to have the competence to use English in daily life. The problem is it is not quite easy for the learners of English to learn all those dependent clauses. This paper aims at searching the use of dependent clauses in Jakarta Post articles: which types are used, how frequent they are used, which types are used the most and the least. This study is limited to any ten short articles contained in Jakarta Post. The study would be significant for teachers and learners of English that, in spite of the fact that dependent clauses are complicated, they are applied in newspaper articles. The literature would review theories/concepts of dependent clauses as the bases of the study: relative/adjective clause, noun clause, conditional clause, and adverbial clause as well as previous related studies about dependent clauses. The method of study would start with selecting ten short newspapers articles from Jakarta Post; identifying all the dependent clauses found in the articles, categorize the types of dependent clauses, and order the types of dependent clauses according to the frequencies found in the articles. The findings of this study would be used to suggest that learners of English need to study dependent clauses in order to comprehend, among others, newspaper articles

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