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
In accordance with the research problems formulated previously, the research objectives of the study are:
1. To provide information about 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.
7 2.
To provide information about 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. To provide information about 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. To provide information about 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.
E. Research Benefits
This study can be viewed as a basic research on nouns. This study focuses on two types of nouns, particularly common and compound nouns, that are used
in the opinion articles written in a newspaper. This study is expected to provide beneficial information for people in
improving their written English. The study tries to help people to realize the importance of the precise use of nouns in a written work. Hopefully, this study
can help English writers, English teachers, and other English researchers. The benefit of this study for English writers is to provide useful
representation of the use the nouns in a newspaper’s opinion articles within a particular scientific topic like Global Warming. Therefore, this study can raise the
writers’ awareness to choose and have the precise use of nouns more carefully in their opinion articles.
8 The study is also intended to help English teachers in better view of the
importance of deciding the appropriate nouns in relevance with the context when their students write an opinion. So, the teachers can explain better about the word
choice especially nouns and minimize their students’ confusion. Meanwhile, for future researchers, this study of common and compound
nouns will give a description and explanation of the analysis about nouns. This description, then, can probably become a reference and encourage them to
conduct more thorough research of the similar topic.
F. Definition of Terms
