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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
Language interference occurs when two languages in different grammatical systems come into contact. The language contact produces some
errors, like grammatical errors that ultimately allow some awkward sentences in target language. For that reason, in this research, the data are several sentences
that may be containing grammatical errors. The section looks further into samples taken from Miss Universe 2010
Interview Session. The sentences spoken by the interviewee who uses English as her first foreign language or target language are estimated containing grammatical
interference. The writer gives the number for the collected data to make easier to analyze. The data were taken from a video of Puteri Indonesia 2009 in interview
session on Miss Universe Contest 2010 as follows:
1. Morphological Error
a Agreement
1 Singular – Plural Agreement
No. Corpuses
Types of Grammatical Interference
Correct Sentences Min.
a.
Q:
What is the best gift you have ever received?
A: It have a sounds, a
beautiful sounds
that
makes me love a music.
Interference relates to function or meaning of
grammatical forms.
It has a sound, a beautiful sound
that
makes me love the music.
00:53
b. Q: What is the best gift
you have ever received? A:
I love a music now. I love music now.
00:59
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c. Q: What is the worst date
you have ever been on? A:
So he have three girlfriend
including me, but before that I know
that they have more than one hundred girlfriend.
So he has three girlfriends
including me, but before that I
know that he has had more
than
one hundred girlfriends.
01:49
2 Subject – Verb Agreement
No. Corpuses
Types of Grammatical Interference
Correct Sentences Min.
a. Q:
What is the best gift you have ever received?
A: It have a sounds, a
beautiful sounds
that makes me love a music.
Interference relates to transfer of morphemes.
It has a sound, a
beautiful sound that makes me love the
music. 00:53
b. Q: What is the worst date
you have ever been on? A:
So he have three
girlfriend including me, but before that I know
that they have more than one hundred girlfriend.
So he has three girlfriends including
me, but before that I know that he has had
more
than one
hundred girlfriends. 01:49
3 Tense Agreement
No Corpuses
Types of Grammatical Interference
Correct Sentences Min.
a. Q:
What is the best gift you have ever received?
A:
The best
gift somebody ever given to
me is the one box, but the case is not good or
beautiful. Interference relates to
function or meaning of grammatical forms.
The best
gift somebody ever given
to me was a box, but the case was not good
or irrelevant. 00:35
b. Q: What is the best gift
you have ever received? A:
Now, I‟m a singer and
I’m study at singer for jazz, for classical, and of
course for pop. Now, I‟m a singer
and
I’m studying to
be a singer for jazz, for classical, and of
course for pop. 01:04
c. Q:
What is the best gift you have ever received?
A: That is makes
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