The Data Gathering Method of the Study
category would be given a tick to the most appropriate type of sentence which they were included in. Following are examples of three types of sentences which
were produced by tour guides in Prambanan Temple. Letters and numbers in brackets were references where the sentences could be found. The letters inside
the brackets are the code of the respondents who produced the sentences. The numbers inside the brackets are the number of sentences in which the sentences
can be found in the appendix of related respondent. For example line F 19, it means that the sentence was produced by respondent F and it was the sentence
number 19 that was analyzed. This sentence can be found in the appendix of sentences produced by respondent F. The list of the sentences can be seen in the
appendices.
a. Simple Sentence 1. “Here we can see the map of the Prambanan temples complex.” E 3
2. “There we have two hundred and forty nine temples.” F 19 3. “There are about two hundred dancers.” H 8
b. Compound Sentence 1. “The first was Hindu and then the second was Buddhist.” B 12
2. “Welcome to Prambanan Temple complex and now we are in the information centre.” G 1
c. Complex Sentence 1. “And … Rama sent the second commander in chief, the blue monkey,
Hanggada.” A 176-177 2. “That’s why finally she was cursed to be the last statue to complete a
thousand statues and temples in one single night.” I 342-343
After catezorizing the sentences, the writer counted the member of each type of sentence. Later, to know the percentage, each type of sentence produced
by each respondent were counted and then the writer counted the percentage. As the final analysis on the first problem, the writer counted the average member of
each type of sentence. The second problem was still on the calculation of the percentage of the
sentences. On the Sentence-Type Checklists, the writer categorized the sentences as a correct or incorrect by giving a tick in the column “Correct” or
“Incorrect”. It was obvious that a sentence could only be a member of one category. The first step after categorizing the sentences into correct and incorrect
ones, the writer counted the member of correct and incorrect sentences and then counted the percentage. The writer did this for all sentences made by all
respondents. The third analysis was on the grammatical aspects related to deviant forms
of sentences. For each type of sentences there are several different requirements.
1. Simple Sentences
Tour guides are expected: a.
to produce sentences which already consist of one subject in the form of noun phrase
b. to produce sentences which already consists of one predicate in the form of
verb phrase c.
to notice the agreement or concord, including the use of masculine and feminine pronouns, the use of correct singular and plural forms of verbs
and pronouns, and the use of correct forms of nouns after determiner, and d.
to produce sentences with grammatical sentence constructions