1.5 Scope and Limitation of the Study
The central issue of the current study is limited to the developmental pattern of the acquisition of noun phrase by three different groups of Indonesian
EFL learners which consist of freshman, sophomore, and junior. There are a large number of learners, and conduct other asynchronous or non real time activities to
cover all of them. As this study investigates the developmental pattern in the acquisition of phrase level, the result research later should be interpreted in
relation to the scope and limitation of the study. 1. As the current study concern the acquisition of the noun phrase, the
number of phrases under the study is necessarily small and is limited to noun phrases that related to words in the accounting fields. As a result, the
sampled words may not represent a wide range of word types Laufer, Elder, Hill and Congdon, 2004.
2. This proposal study also use a cross sectional design which involves three different groups of Indonesian EFL learner and is not longitudinal in
nature Schmidt, 1983. The limitations of this one are 1 there is no possibility to track the development of learner personally as different
learners are involved, and 2 it allows macro level analysis instead of microanalysis. Although its limitation, the cross-sectional design has been
used I number of studies in the SLA such as Dulay and Burt 1973, 1974c .
According to Ellis, the study on the developmental patters should adopt longitudinal studies which involve the same individual learners over a long
period of time, but there have been very few of these. Most researchers prefer to conduct cross sectional studies.
3. The sample used in the study was selected from a certain target population, i.e. the students of the English Education Study Program
EESP of Sanata Dharma University, which is located in Yogyakarta, Central Java. Despite the subjects came from different linguistic and
cultural background, the majority are Javanese.
1.6 Benefits of the Study
Most of second language noun phrase studies have focused on the noun phrase related to English relative clause, they also examine about noun phrase
accessibility hierarchy Keenan and Comrie, 1977, 1979. Since not much study has been done on the acquisition of the depth of second language grammatical
knowledge, this research proposal tried to probe in depth into developmental pattern of the acquisition of noun phrase of EFL learners.
The study is expected to have both theoretical and pedagogical contribution. Theoretically, the study is expected to contribute to the better
understanding on the acquisition of the developmental pattern of the noun phrase in the acquisition of second and foreign language. Tentatively, the pedagogical
contribution of this study is that the developmental pattern of the acquisition of noun phrase in three different groups help improve practices in the second
language learning in general and the teaching and learning L2 grammatical in particular.
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
Introduction
The notion of literature review refers to an assessment of written textbooks or manuscripts written by one or more than one scholars with reference to the
topic of study, Kombo 2006. In relation to this study, this chapter aims to determine the key constructs relevant to the topic, i.e. noun phrase, the
developmental pattern, English learning in Indonesia, EFL learner, componential analysis of noun phrase identification and noun phrase translation, and the
conceptual framework for the present research. The review will take the following order. First, the construct of
developmental pattern of noun phrases, English learning in Indonesia, and EFL learners.
2.1 Theoretical Review
The review will take the following order.
2.1.1 The Developmental Pattern
The main objective of this study is to discover the developmental pattern on the acquisition of noun phrase by Indonesian EFL learners. In understanding
the concept of developmental pattern of noun phrase in grammatical acquisition research, one needs to identify a classification in term of noun phrase placements
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