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1. Collocation
Firth 1957: 181 defined collocation as a statement of the habitual or customary places of word. In the other words, it is a combination of adjacent
words which frequently occur together. There are two kinds of collocation, among others, that are studied in this research. Those are grammatical collocation and
lexical collocation.
2. Conventionality
Conventionality is defined as the degree to which writers of academic English use familiar and prefabricated word combinations. The second definition
about conventionality is the extent to which those combinations are used in their standard forms. In this research, conventionality is perceived as whether or not the
collocation is commonly used the international journal and exists in their standard form in the dictionaries
3. Abstract
Abstracts are found at the beginning of journal, articles, research papers, reports, thesis, and dissertations. An abstract is a complete but concise and
informative account of researchers’ work. It is a condensation that makes sense without reference to the full document. An abstract is not merely a descriptive
guide to the paper’s content. It is an abbreviated version of the paper. The abstracts chosen in this research are the abstracts of the twenty undergraduate
9 students of the Economics Faculty that have been submitted to the university
library during September 2007.
4. Translated Abstract
Translated writing is an approach of putting ideas in the first language L1 and then translating it in the second language L2. The first language in the
context of this paper is Indonesian. One of the processes involved in this kind of writing is translation process. The students engaging in this writing would put
their ideas in L1 and then translate in L2. In the context of undergraduate students of the economics Faculty, an abstract is written in Indonesia and then translated
into English.
5. Undergraduate Students
The students that produced the abstracts are the undergraduate students of the Economics Faculty that have finished conducting the research and writing the
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