Abstract
Syntactic awareness has been linked to reading comprehension skills. In Junior high schools, syntactic awareness of noun phrases can be very important for the students in the Indonesian context because it can improve their reading comprehension. However, teaching noun phrases for the students can be challenging due to the grammar difference. The junior high school student’s noun phrase awareness was measured using a developed test. It consists of 28 questions with seven noun categories. The reliability test was conducted using KR-20 and the result was .90. The study indicated the average score of the students was 69.07 (fair). Of the seven noun phrases category, nominal possessors and conjoined noun phrases were good, prenominal possessors, multiple genitive constructs, alienable and inalienable possessions, and ad-positional phrases were fair, and nonreferential generative was weak. Referring to the result of the research, it is suggested to improve the student’s noun phrase awareness to enhance their reading comprehension.
Highlights
Many researchers have indicated that syntactic awareness positively correlates with the reader's ability to comprehend a reading passage (Mokhtari & Thompson, 2006; Layton, Robinson, & Lawson, 1998; Nergis 2013), the higher the reader's awareness of English syntax, the higher the probability to understand a reading text
Syntax awareness is very important for junior high school children because it is very important for them to understand their lessons and understand the textbooks which are all written in English
This research employs quantitative research because the results will measure the level of syntactic awareness of eight grades of junior high school students on noun phrases
Summary
Journal of English Studies Vol., No.2, December, 2021 of the compulsory subjects. At this level, students are taught English ranging from vocabulary to various types of simple sentences. The reason is that syntactic awareness cannot work very well if the reader has a very poor level of vocabulary mastery because the first step to improve syntactic awareness is to increase their ability in word order Another thing is that students must have an understanding of basic sentence grammar; in the context of phrases, they must know the basic grammar rules to form phrases. According to the national curriculum designed by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia (2017), the core of teaching English in grade 8 is expected to develop the students’ language skills in understanding short and simple phrases and being able to understand short English texts both orally and written In this context, students’ awareness of phrasal awareness could assist students to have a better understanding. Noun phrases are taught in the 8 grade
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