86 the audience to gain the meaning of the sentence. This phenomenon indicated
there were four sub-patterns of post-noun modification that were undiscovered in the transcripts. In short, a complex noun phrase might pose the misinterpretation
of understanding the meaning of each topic sentence. To avoid the misinterpretation in speech, confining the noun phrase construction is needed.
B. Recommendations
Since the analysis of grammar is interesting to be conducted, there are some recommendations proposed for constructing the further studies. In this
research, the researcher only emphasizes on the analysis of post-noun modification occurring in the speech transcripts of Marty Natalegawa. Literally,
this research can be beneficial for the practical field as well as in the academic field, typically either educational or linguistic studies.
For the educational study, the researcher expects the object of this research can be used as a proper material for ‘Structure’ and ‘Syntax’ courses in English
Language Education Study Program ELESP of Sanata Dharma University. In ‘Structure’ course, the students are able to expand their knowledge to analyze the
structure of the noun phrase modification constructed either in formal speech or text. Besides, the students enables to observe the process of the modification by
noticing the existence of the X’ bar theory in ‘Syntax’ course. In addition, this research is also expected to be a consideration in designing the syllabuses
employed in ‘Structure’ and ‘Syntax’ courses.
87 It follows, that, this analysis can be beneficial for teachers as reference to
consider the syntactic process of language in the classroom. As teachers, they can adopt the subject of this research as the reference to introduce the global issues
towards the students. The researcher expects that this subject can be beneficial for students to enhance their critical thinking in criticizing and solving the problems.
Furthermore, the students of English Language Education Study Program ELESP of Sanata Dharma University can use the object of the study as the
proper material to test the students’ comprehension or perception towards grammar occurring in the formal speech or text.
For the linguistic study, since this research is related to the study of English grammar, this research can be employed as a proper reference to conduct
the critical discourse analysis or other pragmatics and semantics field. To converge those fields, determining the speech acts can be possible to be conducted
in order to find out the function or the meaning of those complexities.
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