Causatives and the problems among Indonesian learners  

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Wijayanti, Devi ; Fitriati, Anna

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: KOLITA 15 : Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya Kelima Belas, page 621-625.
Topik: Causatives; mastery; syntactic analysis; error analysis
Fulltext: 621 Devi Wijayanti & Anna Fitriati - OK.pdf (328.2KB)

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Grammar concerns with the principles of constructing acceptable formation of words, phrases, and sentences as well as the principles of interpreting the meaning (Radford, 2002: 1). However, grammar which is taught in the level of university, especially in such of English Department, will be more complex such as learning how to make a noun phrase, how to use and distinguish certain auxiliaries, and how to understand the deep structure of a sentence. One of the materials taught of English Grammar in English Letters Department is Causative. Causative is a group of verbs including some of transitive verbs, intransitive verbs, and auxialiary verbs that indicate the underlying structure of ‘cause’ towards something implicitly or explicitly (Kastovsky, 1973: 256). Causative is taken as the material for the research due to some reasons. First, the material of Causative is considered difficult to be learned by the students of in English Letters Department of Universitas Sanata Dharma. Second, the form of Causative in English is different from the form of Causative in Indonesia. English has several verbs such as make, have, get, cause, and force to mark the Causative sentence. In the other side, Indonesian has suffixes added to the verb in order to label the Causative verb, for example prefix {mem-} and affix {–kan} in menidurkan. Due to these reasons, the researcher decided to take Causative make, have, get as the research object. The sample for the study would be Seventh Semester Students who had already learned the material in the second, fourth, and fifth semester. The scope of this research covers: 1) the different form of Causative make, have, get in English and Indonesian; and 2) the errors that are found in learning Causative make, have, and get. The researcher hypothesized that the seventh semester students have difficulties in learning English Causative of make, have, get due to its difference structure in Indonesian and English and the rarity of English Causative form in speaking and writing. This research applies the syntactic analysis on causative verbs in English and Indonesian to find out deeper understanding on causative verbs. A test is given to the seventh semester students to identify their mastery of the Causative, especially make, have, and get; some problems that they have, and some factors that may lead to their errors. It is expected that by conducting this research, some problems related to the mastery of causative verbs can be revealed to help both the teachers and students improve their understanding of causative verbs.

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