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explanations to the students on language forms and functions are clear and reliable.
To relate with the practice of English language teaching, this research puts forward on the practical uses and the application of the X schema to analyse
adjective clauses as one of the subjects of language teaching. The adjective clauses have been interest for many researchers to investigate for their complexity
and usage Annas, 2004 and Lin and Bever, 2006. Some teaching literatures Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Freeman, 1999: 571-573; Murphy, 1985: 182-190 and
Yule, 2004: 239-240 also indicate that the adjectives clauses should be elaborated in a great respect. However, most of the researchers investigate the adjective
clauses in the light of teaching strategies and second language acquisition. Therefore, this research carries out the research in the framework of syntax as a
complement of those researches. This research is expected to give positive contribution in language teaching by disclosing the students’ performance in
applying the X schema as well as making general classifications of the students’ mistakes so that better performance in teaching could be attained.
B. Problem Formulation
The research questions are the followings: 1.
What is the sixth semester students’ performance on analysing the adjective clauses using the X-Bar schema?
2. What are the general classifications of the most mistakes commonly made by
the students on analysing the adjective clauses using the X-Bar schema? PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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C. Problem Limitation
This research is conducted to the sixth semester students of English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University academic year
20072008. The main focus of this research is to measure students’ performance to analyse adjective clause using the X schema. To measure the students’
performance the writer will administers a test. The test results are then analysed to determine the students’ performance and to know the mistakes on analysing the
adjective clauses. Since adjective clauses are a broad topic, the writer limits the topic of the
adjective clause. This research will focus on the restrictive adjective clauses which use relative pronouns which, who, whom and that. According to Biber,
Conrad and Leech 2002: 284-286, those relative pronouns are included in the high frequency of relative pronouns choices in conversation, fiction, news and
academic prose. Therefore, they clearly deserve priority from pedagogical perspective to be analysed.
The writer uses and follows the theories which is used as the main sources in Morpho-Syntax class to analyse the adjective clauses. The theories are taken
from the book entitled Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction 2005 by O’Grady, Archibald, Aronof and Rees-Miller. The consideration of taking that
book is because the sixth semester students who become the sample of the research study the theories taken from the book. Therefore, in making the research
instrument and in discussing the findings, the writer refers to that theory as the main source. In addition, the book emphasises more on the practical uses of the
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schema rather than philosophical. Therefore, it is suitable to be used for language teachers and candidate of teachers as a media to depict language.
D. Research Objective
