8 comparison to the local newspaper. The reason is due its status as a global
newspaper. Therefore, the news writers who write for International New York Times are native speakers of English or people who have a very good mastery of
English. Then, International New York Times can be compared to the local English-language newspapers whose news writers are mostly Indonesian.
For that reason, this research aims to find out about what determiners are used in the articles, which determiner deletion occurs in those three newspapers
and what are the possible effects from the determiner deletion. Later, the findings are also hoped to show the different style between Indonesian news writers and
foreign news writerss in terms of determiner deletion.
B. Problem Formulation
The problems of this research are formulated as follows. 1. In what context are determiners deleted in The Jakarta Post, The Jakarta
Globe and International New York Times? 2. What possible effects do the determiner deletions have related to the news
writing style on The Jakarta Post, The Jakarta Globe and International New York Times?
C. Research Objectives
This research studies determiner deletion which occurs in three English- language newspapers, two are Indonesian English-language newspapers and one
is global English-language newspaper. Then, related to the problem formulation, there are several objectives which would like to be achieved through this research.
The first objective is finding the determiners in the news articles. It is related to find in what context the determiners are deleted in the newspaper. Context here
9 means the situation which initiates the process of deletion. In order to find the
context, the determiners found in the news articles will be classified and categorized so that the exact number of the determiners used in the articles will be
discovered. The classification of the determiners will be done based on the theory of the kinds of determiners. It is important to find the number of the determiners
since they are one of the distinctive features in news writing style. Moreover, they are the main objects of the research.
The second objective is finding the determiner deletion context. As what have been discussed in the background of the study, deleting the determiners is
one of the rule breaking which is done by the news writers. Moreover, it becomes the style which is done by the news writers. Finding out the number of the deleted
determiners will be able to reveal which newspaper has the most deletion in its article. Later, the result of the number of deletion will be beneficial to compare
the news writing style of those three newspapers, which is also one of the main points of this research.
The third objective is finding the possible effects of the determiner deletion. After gaining the number of the determiners which are used and the
number of the determiners which are deleted in those three newspapers, this research aims to compare the result. The comparison result is hoped to show the
different style applied by local news writers and also foreign news writers in terms of determiner deletion.
D. Research Benefits
