Abstract
The present study aims at exploring students’ difficulties in determining deep and surface structure in sentences. The study used quantitative descriptive as a research design. Test and questionnaire were employed as data collection technique. The population of the study is all seventh semester students of English Education Department, since they have studied syntax in the previous semesters. 50 students were sampled in this study. The study reveals that most of students cannot transform deep structure into surface structure. They only can identify the surface structure of simple sentences. The study also shows that English Education Department students find much difficulty in determining the labeling of the words in surface structure, for they cannot classify the class of wordos in surface structure. The study suggests that the ability to differentiate word categories be essential in transforming the surface structure generated through deep structure.
Highlights
Syntax is micro linguistics which becomes one of the compulsory subjects at English Education Department
The present study aims at exploring students’ difficulties in determining deep and surface structure in sentences
The study shows that English Education Department students find much difficulty in determining the labeling of the words in surface structure, for they cannot classify the class of wordos in surface structure
Summary
Syntax is taken at the fifth semester In this case, the English Education Department students must learn about the sentence structure and parse it in a sentence. The English Education Department students must learn about the sentence structure and parse it in a sentence They need to really understand of how to compose a good sentence with a complete meaning in detail. They will be able to understand the classification and the orders of words in sentences They will not be able to teach English to students if they do not know about the English sentence structure well. These tree kinds of Immediate Constituents has been so far used in transforming the deep structure of the sentences into the surface structure of the sentences.
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