The Precision and Accuracy of English Verbs Choice in Recount Text Written by the Students of CEC Denpasar: An Analysis of Metalanguage

Ni Nyoman Dewi Astari Putri,Made Sri Satyawati,I Wayan Pastika

doi:10.25078/yb.v1i1.1378

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Abstract

<p>This writing entitled “The Precision and Accuracy of English Verbs Choice in Recount Text Written by The Students of CEC Denpasar: An Analysis of Metalanguage” was conducted in order to be able to find out the percentage of precision and accuracy of English verbs choice in recount text written by the students of CEC Denpasar, analyze the lexico-semantic error, and describe the factors that cause this error. The data in this study were taken directly from recount texts written by the students of CEC Denpasar, interview, and questionnaire. Those data were collected by using a test, interview, and questionnaire method. The theory applied in this writing is Metalanguage from NSM theory proposed by Wierzbicka (1996). However, in describing the error, the analysis was done through configuration only by the qualitative method. The result shows that out of twenty-six verbs, twelve chosen verbs were less precise. Through Metalanguage, those errors can be described configurationally. Moreover, the difference between the error and the recommendation verbs can be explained, therefore, the difference can be shown. There were two factors that cause this error. They are external (teacher, method, strategy, technique used in teaching) and internal (motivation, potency, competence, and learners’ language background) factors.</p>

Highlights

Every language has a word class which refers to the verb, no matter what language it is (Chafe, 1970). Dixon (1991:9) argues that the verb is the core of a clause and sentence as it presupposes a number of participants, i.e. one, two or three depending on the semantic concern
There are three aims of this study. They are to find out the percentage of precision and accuracy of English verb choice in recount text written by the students of CEC Denpasar, analyze the lexico-semantic error, and describe the factors that cause this error
The first point is the percentage of precision and accuracy of English verb choice in recount text written by the students of CEC Denpasar

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Every language has a word class which refers to the verb, no matter what language it is (Chafe, 1970). Dixon (1991:9) argues that the verb is the core of a clause and sentence as it presupposes a number of participants, i.e. one, two or three depending on the semantic concern. Precision and accuracy in choosing English verbs are very important for the students of CEC Denpasar to avoid misunderstanding since what they want to say is not expressed well by the sentence they utter. The definition of ‘ask’ and ‘request’ refer to one another; the student will be confused to choose the best verb as they do not understand the difference between these verbs This problem leads to a lexico-semantic error. There are three aims of this study They are to find out the percentage of precision and accuracy of English verb choice in recount text written by the students of CEC Denpasar, analyze the lexico-semantic error, and describe the factors that cause this error. Configuration helps to find out the subtle difference between the chosen verb and its alternative as well to describe the usage; the difference can be shown

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RESULT

Lexico-Semantic Error of Verb

CONCLUSION