Pedagogy : Journal of English Language Teaching
Vol 2 No 2 (2014): Pedagogy: Journal of English Language Teaching

THE STUDY OF THE STUDENTS’ COLLOCATION PERFORMANCE IN ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING

Haryati Oktavera (EUREKA English Center, Metro)

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Publish Date
15 Dec 2014

Abstract

Collocation is used by most of the native speaker in both writing and speaking authentic English. This paper focused on knowing the students’ collocation knowledge by examining their lexical and grammatical collocation performance in their argumentative writing. This research, therefore, conducted by analyzing deeply 10 argumentative writings of the third semester students of PBI STAIN JuraiSiwo Metro in academic year 2013/2014. The result of this research showed that there were 41 % errors found in both lexical collocation (25%) and grammatical collocation (16 %) in the students’ argumentative writing. It clearly means that students’ collocation knowledge still need to be improved. Hence, teachers have an important role to play down the error in applying collocation.

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Pedagogy : Journal of English Language Teaching
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Abbrev

pedagogy

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Institut Agama Islam Negeri Metro Lampung

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Education Environmental Science Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

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Pedagogy: Journal of English Language Teaching is a journal published by the State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) of Metro. It specializes in English Language Teaching and is intended to communicate original researches and current issues on the subject. This journal is published twice a year. ...