DINAMIKA ILMU - Vol. 17 No. 1 - 2017 - Effect of Students’ Term and Educational Institution on the Arising of Indonesian Morphology-Syntactical Interference in ELLT

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Research investigates how two factors influence the emergence of Indonesian morphology-syntactical interference among undergraduate students in the English departments of State Islamic Institute of Tulungagung and PGRI teacher training college of Tulungagung. Using observation and 12 open-ended questions with 213 Javanese participants selected by two-step purposive sampling, correlations and SPSS-based t-tests are applied alongside linear stepwise multiple regression to determine contributing variables and comparative score patterns.

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Abstract

A. Introduction

Interference as language transfer in foreign language learning

Prior studies on morphology and syntactic errors

Language production and syntactic persistence

DINAMIKA ILMU Vol. 17 No. 1, 2017 P-ISSN: 1411-3031; E-ISSN: 2442-9651 doi: [http://dx.doi.org/10.21093/di.v17i1.739](http://dx.doi.org/10.21093/di.v17i1.739) Effect of Students’ Term and Educational Institution on the Arising of Indonesian Morphology-Syntactical Interference in ELLT Dwi Astuti Wahyu Nurhayati1 1 Postgraduate student of Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta, Indonesia Djatmika2; Riyadi Santosa2; Tri Wiratno2 2 Promotors from Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta, Indonesia [dwiastuti507@gmail.com](dwiastuti507@gmail.com) Abstract This research examines the two factors which effect on the raising of Indonesian morphology-syntactical interference. It aimed at delineating the potential effect of these two factors on the arising of Indonesian morphologysyntactical interference of undergraduate students majoring in English department of State Islamic Institute of Tulungagung and PGRI teacher training college of Tulungagung. 213 Javanese undergraduate students were selected based on two-step purposive sampling. To collect data, the researcher used observation and questionares in which the participants answered a set of 12 open-ended questions to measure the students’ term along with educational institution and Indonesian morphology-syntactical interference. To analyze the data, t-test on correlation and coefficient as well as linier stepwise multiple regressions were conducted through Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 17. Data analysis indicated that the independent variables significantly correlated with Indonesian morphology-syntactical interference. In addition, multiple regressions analysis specified different higher institution asthe main contributing variable and students’ term as the second one on the arising of Indonesian interference. It also showed that students of English departments of state Islamic institution of Tulungagung got higher scores on the arising of Indonesian morphology-syntactical interference than those of PGRI teacher training college of Tulungagung. The reason may refer to the supporting environment that is higher language exposure. The results highlighted the longer the students’ term they have, the lower score on the arising of Indonesian morphology-syntactical interference they produce. Keywords: students’ term, Indonesian interference, Morphology-syntactical, ELLT A. Introduction Interference as language transfer arising in learning foreign language cannot be avoided. As bilinguals, Indonesian people speak (i) dialect and (ii) Indonesian. Dialects are languages used by groups of societies that stay in certain areas and Javanese is oneof the regional dialects (Nurhayati, 2016d) . Its structure is related to ethics and politeness in Javanese community in the language perspective, especially in the semiotics one (Nurhayati, 2016f) . Language transfer or interference occurs in any situation when someone does not have a native-level command of a language, as when translating from L1 into L2 or L3 (English) in English Language Learning and Teaching or ELLT (Ellis, 2008) . In line with this vision, many studies were conducted and focused on language interference. Among others were done by Suleymanov (2015), Khan & Arshad (2015), Pudin, et al. (2015), and Usha & Kadher (2016) . Most of the studies observed the English syntactic and morphological errors analysis among students. Sulaymanev‘s research (2015) focused on the omission of phrases (NP-noun phrase and VP-verb phrase) in the sentence formation. The next was Khan & Arshad’ study (2015) which was revealed that concord in auxiliaries, SVO pattern, articles, prepositions and tense are the major of syntactic error, whereas Usha & Kadher’s research (2016) found affixation and compound related errors, failure to use the marker (-er) and conversion related errors. But these studies were limited on word categories and only in written assignment. Related to the language production, recently, th

FAQs

What does the study aim to examine?

It examines how two factors affect the emergence of Indonesian morphology-syntactical interference among undergraduate students in specific Indonesian English departments.

How were participants selected and data collected?

A total of 213 Javanese undergraduate students were selected using two-step purposive sampling. Data were collected through observation and 12 open-ended questions measuring students’ term and interference.

Which variables were found to contribute most to the interference?

Multiple regression analysis indicates that the higher institution acts as the main contributing variable, while students’ term is the second contributing factor.

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