English Community Journal
Vol 4, No 1 (2020): English Community Journal

A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND INDONESIAN NEGATIONS: A CASE OF NEGATIVE MARKERS

Sulaiman, Masagus (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Jul 2020

Abstract

This research is aimed at determining the similarities, dissimilarities, and possible difficulties faced by Indonesian and English speaking students as learning negations and also the recommendations to TEFL. The descriptive-qualitative method was used. The documentation technique was applied in collecting the data. To analyze the data, the researcher used a descriptive analysis. The results showed that there were six similarities and four dissimilarites between English and Indonesian negations. The six similarities were in rejection or denial with verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, “No” followed by nouns, and incomplete or undone action. The four dissimilarities were in confixation, suffixation, short prohibition and strong objection. The possible difficultes faced by English speaking students was in confixation, while Indonesian students’ was in suffixation and strong objection. The dissimilarities make recommendations to TEFL teachers to design teaching materials of English grammar that enable students understand negations.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

englishcommunity

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

English Community Journal is a journal of English Education Journal of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education at Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang. English Community Journal includes articles of English Education and published in twice a year, march and September. English Community Journal ...