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Besides, the formula to know the percentage of the students was described as follows.
Percentage score = number of students who had certain score all number of observed students
Furthermore, the writer also calculated the reliability of the test. The reliability of the test was very important since “it showed the major characteristic
of a good test” Hatch and Farhady, 1982: 247. The reliability was between 0 and 1. “The test will be perfectly reliable if the reliability would be equal 1” Hatch
and Farhady, 1982: 245.
2. Discussion
a. The analysis techniques in answering the first research question
1 Analyzing the students’ fixed and loose answers in translating verb plus verbal
noun collocation based on Nattinger’s and DeCarrico’s Theory. This step was to know the Students’ mastery in translating verb plus verbal
noun collocation without considering the structure. This was only to know how well the students could find the acceptable combinations of verb and noun in
translating verb plus verbal noun collocation. A table was used to show the students’ answers related to verb plus verbal noun collocation. The students’
answers were presented per number. The table was shown as follows.
Table 3.2: Students’ Answers of Verb plus Verbal Noun Collocation Number…
Bahasa Indonesia Fixed Verb plus
Verbal Noun Collocation
Numbers of Students
Loose Verb plus Verbal Noun
Collocation Numbers
of Students
… …
… …
…
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2 Analyzing the students’ answers in translating verb plus verbal noun
collocation based on Newmark’s Theory.
Since in this research was about translating verb plus verbal noun collocation, there were some other answers which were not totally wrong. Some
of the answers were meaningful but they were not the verb-verbal noun collocation expected. According to Nattinger and DeCarrico, 1992 as quoted by
Moehkardi 2002: 59, the fixed structures of collocations were idiomatic, but their meanings were still predictable from the elements of the combination. On
contrary, the meanings of loose collocations could still be derived from the individual words.
From the analysis of students’ errors, the writer acquired numbers of various participants’ answers including the errors. To make it clearly understood,
the writer classified the participants into 5 types. It was based on the books and dictionaries related to verb plus verbal noun collocation. The types were shown as
follow. CM = N 5 4 3 2 1 = N 5 4 3 2 1
N TTL x 20 1360
CM 1 = N 5 CM 3 = N 3
CM 5 = N 1 1360
1360 1360
CM 2 = N 4 CM 4 = N 2
1360 1360
CM : Collocation mastery,
N 5 : number of participants’ answers of fixedidiomatic verb plus verbal
noun collocation with correct structuretenses,
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N 4 : number of participants’ answers of fixedidiomatic verb plus verbal
noun collocation with incorrect structuretense, N 3
: number of participants’ answers of loose verb plus verbal noun collocation with correct structure tenses,
N 2 : number of participants’ answers of loose verb plus verbal noun
collocation with incorrect structure tenses, N 1
: number of participants’ answers of verb plus verbal noun collocation errors or did not answer with incorrect structure tenses.
N TTL : N Total number of all participants. 20
: number of the test. The classification of the students’ mastery of verb plus verbal noun
collocation was to analyze the range result of the verb plus verbal noun collocation test. The classification was shown in the table as follows.
Table 3.3: Mastery of Verb plus Verbal Noun Collocation The Level of Students
Mastery Criteria
CM 1 The participants mastered the fixed verb plus verbal
noun collocation with high understanding of the structure tense of the sentence.
CM 2 The participants mastered the fixed verb plus verbal
noun collocation with poor understanding of the structure tense of the sentence.
CM 3 The participants mastered the loose verb plus verbal
noun collocation but have high understanding of the structure tense of the sentence.
CM 4 The participants mastered the loose verb plus verbal
noun collocation and have poor understanding of the structure tense of the sentence.
CM 5 The participants had no idea about the verb plus verbal
noun collocation and the structure tense of the sentence.
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F. Research Procedure
