CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Backrgound of the Study
Mastering English is not a rare phenomenon anymore in this digital era because many facilities have been provided. Furthermore, several advantages of
learning English increase people’s interest to master the language. One of the advantages is social advantage. People who master English are considered as high
class and educated men. Another one is the economic benefit to get comfortable position in some particular well-known occupations since the main requirement is
possessing English competence.
However, great effort is needed to learn English for Indonesian people because it is not the first language or second language in Indonesia. Javanese,
Indonesian, and Madurese are some of Indonesian first languages or mother tongue. A first language means a language that is acquired during early childhood.
A second language that starts to be learnt after acquiring the first language is a language that is studied by non-native learners. They get the second language
knowledge from its language coming from. Besides, a foreign language is also a term of language category. A foreign language is “a language studied by people
who live in places where the language is not the first language” Gebhard, 1996:
2. Based on the explanation, English is considered a foreign language when it is studied in Indonesia.
There are many ways to learn English as a foreign language. One of them is utilizing digital application, website, or internet. Internet provides many facilities
to e ncourage people’s skill in English for instance the applications that could
make users fluent in speaking, better in listening, and easy in understanding paragraph or story. Wattpad is one of the applications in which users wherever
they come from can develop their ability in not only reading skill but also practicing the English lesson they have got by posting their works like articles,
stories, fan fiction, and poems. It is also “a leader in this new storytelling
environment, with more than two million writers producing 100,000 pieces of
material a day for 20 million readers on an intricate international social network ”
Streitfeld, 2014. The work that is published in wattpad could be read, voted, and commented
by other users. The Big Five: Knight Princess is one of the collected works that forms a fan fiction story which has more than seven thousand readers Ardhita,
2014. It shows that the story could enchant and make others curious what the next chapter will be. According to number of the readers the author has obtained,
it is a great achievement since most of users come from other countries. Nevertheless, the author is a foreign language learner FLL who comes from
Indonesia. She is a student of grade XI in junior high school. She is also influenced by her first language rules and several errors or deviation appear on her
work especially verb and verb phrase errors as predicate, for example: a.
I think so. They would be a perfect couple. -
The word would is an error because this sentence event is intended to happen in the future. Would should be changed into
will.
b. The royal family was have breakfast.
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In this sentence, there are a principal auxiliary was and main verb have. Both cannot be gathered in a sentence. So, was must
be deleted since have is the right one.
c. He have done this several times to another kingdom.
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He cannot be followed by have in the perfect tense. He is paired off has.
Verb and verb phrase that function as predicate are the central part in a sentence because they show an action of the subject Frank, 1972. Verb and verb
phrases as predicate that deviate will influence the readers because it is an important element which always appears in a sentence. The imitation of the
erroneous verb and verb phrase is going to be applied in the future time due to number of the readers. In addition, wattpad does not provide a grammar and
spelling checking system.
Hence, the study that analyses verb and verb phrase error is necessarily committed because this object is already in other users’ reading list and as a
reference to them in producing their work which is in the same topic. The probability of imitating the good and the erroneous form is very wide. In
addition, this study can give a positive contribution to the author to prevent the errors on the next works in the future and avoid the errors which are applied by
others. This study focuses on the analysis of verb and verb phrase deviation on the fan fiction story by applying surface strategy taxonomy by Dulay et al. 1982 as
the guideline of the analysis. Therefore, this study entitles An Analysis of Verb and Verb Phrase Deviation in A Fan Fiction Story The Big Five: Knight Princess
in Wattpad.
1.2 The Problems to Discuss
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