several meanings senses, one of which is change, grow cause something i.e. “ to
grow or gradually change into a more advanced, larger or stonger form”. The term development is defined as “ the gradual growth of someone or something become
more advanced”. Secondly, the same term is defined in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 1995, one of the meanings of the word pattern
is “a regular way in which something happens, develop, or is done” p. 1038. While,
the word develop also has several meaning senses, one of which is grow,increase i.e. “to grow or gradually change into a larger, stronger, or advanced state” p.
374. The term development is defined as “the gradual growth of something so that it becomes bigger or more advanced”.
The term developmental pattern has been used in the literature of second language acquisition. Ellis 1994: 73 uses the term as “ a cover term for the
general regularities evident in laguage acquisition”. It is used to show the stages L2 learners pass through in their L2 development or acquisition. The term pattern
of development may therefore be defined as regular ways in which something “grows” or changes over a period of time.
In second language acquisition, the developmental pattern is usually used to cover term for the general regularities evident in language acquisition. As such,
it subsumes the ideas of order and sequence Ellis, 2008 p. 67
2.2.2 Noun Phrase
Generally, the definition of noun is a word or group of words that represent a person, a place a thing or activity or a quality or idea Longman, 2001
p. 967. While phrase is a group of words that together have a particular meaning p. 1059. Then, the definition of noun phrase can be defined based on the
combination of them. Systematically, phrase is positioned above word, morpheme and phoneme. A phrase is two or more words that do not contain the subject-verb
pair necessary to form a clause. Phrases can be very short or quite long. Certain phrases have specific names based on the type of word that begins or governs the
word group: noun phrase, verb phrase, prepositional phrase, infinitive phrase, participle phrase, gerund phrase, and absolute phrase. In this study, the scope is
noun phrase. Quirck, Greenbaum, Leech and Svartvik 1985, p. 61 defined that a
phrase is a syntactic structure that consists of more than one word but lacks the subject-predicate organization of a clause. While, a noun phrase is a phrase that
has a noun as its head. In addition, a noun phrase generally includes one or more modifying words, but allowance is usually made for single-word minimal noun
phrases that are composed only of a noun or pronoun. Given the foregoing discussion on the related to the current study, the
theoretical framework to the study needs to be established. This study is an empirical investigation on the acquisition of noun phrases.
Its primary concern is the developmental patterns of the acquisition of noun phrase by learners of English as a foreign language. Tracking the developmental
pattern of acquisition of noun phrases is naturally a developmental study and ideally the adopted research method is a cross-sectional study.
The current study adopts the componential analysis as a way of identifying noun phrase first, and also translating the noun phrase of the target of sentences to
be investigated, i.e. twelve sentences which consist of two until three noun phrases in accounting fields.
The statistical analysis is used to answer the hypotheses about the significant different of the acquisition of NP by university students majoring in
English language education. The hypotheses can be formulated into same statement below:
1. There is a significant different in the acquisition of noun phrase by university students majoring in English language education Hi = p ≤0,05
2. There is no a significant different in the acquisition of noun phrase by university students majoring in English language education Ho = p ≥0,05
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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY
Introduction
This section describes the methodology used to conduct the study. To address the research questions proposed in the previous chapter, information
which reflect the Indonesian EFL learners’ acquisition of noun phrases is needed. The methodology designed to obtain the necessary information to answer the
research questions is presented in this chapter. It elaborates the research design, nature of data, research instrument, pilot study, the main study, and
trustworthiness. The present chapter also discusses the assessment instrument designed to
elicit the empirical data to answer the research questions. It described the research instrument which consist of written test and unstructured interview, the
procedures used in the main study which consist of research setting and respondents, data collection and how the data were organized, and the statistical
analysis used in data analysis process in the current study.
3.1 Research Design
The main concern of this study is the developmental patterns of the acquisition of noun phrase by Indonesian EFL learners at three different groups;
freshman, sophomores, and juniors. Such research falls within the area of PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
