5 In short, this study aims to help English learners to give detailed
interpretation on how an Indonesian writer and a non-Indonesian writer having precise use of nouns in their opinion articles within a similar particular context.
B. Problem Formulation
This study is intended to answer the following problems: 1.
What is the frequency of the common and compound nouns used by the Indonesian and the non-Indonesian writers in the Opinion column of The
Jakarta Post from September - October 2007?
2. What are the common and compound nouns types used by the Indonesian and
the non-Indonesian writers in the Opinion column of The Jakarta Post from September - October 2007?
3. What are the forms of common and compound nouns used by the Indonesian
and the non-Indonesian writers in the Opinion column of The Jakarta Post from September - October 2007?
4. What are the markers of common and compound nouns used by the
Indonesian and the non-Indonesian writers in the Opinion column of The Jakarta Post
from September - October 2007?
C. Problem Limitation
Due to limited time and budget, the researcher decided to limit the study on nouns only into two types, common and compound nouns. Common and
6 compound nouns are considered to be the most commonly used in a composition
Frank, 1972: 6. The nouns analyzed in this study are the nouns used in two opinion articles
written by an Indonesian writer and a non-Indonesian writer. The nouns used by two different writers were compared and analyzed.
This research uses opinion articles of a newspaper as the source of data. The consideration is that they are considered as one’s original writing and
published publicly. The researcher decided to take the opinion articles of The Jakarta Post
because this daily newspaper is available for both Indonesian and non-Indonesian people.
Besides, the choice of the opinion article was also based on Global Warming topic. In order to get reliable opinion articles on Global Warming topic,
the researcher decided to take them from the period before the Global Warming Convention in Bali which was held on December 2007. Considering the months
that produced more opinion articles on Global Warming, the researcher decided to choose period September and October 2007.
D. Research Objectives
