Previous Studies Theoretical Description

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1. Previous Studies

There were some previous studies analyzing the relative clauses based on different criteria and sources such as, testing the students of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University in mastering the defining and non-defining relative clauses conducted by Kusumartini 2011 and translating the relative clause with relativizer that in the Achemist by Paulo Coelho into Indonesian sang alkemis by Tanti Lesmana conducted by Ma’u 2013. In analyzing the mastery of defining and non-defining relative clauses, Kusumartini 2011 analyzed 40 students of the fifth semester students in academic year of 20092010 as the representatives by giving some tasks related to defining and non-defining relative clauses to be done and also checked what errors happened while translating the tasks. She divided the errors into three aspects which were the choice of the relative pronouns, grammar of the relative clauses, and the use of punctuation comma. Meanwhile, Mau 2013 focused on the use of the relativizer that in translating the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho into sang Alkemis by Tanti Lesmana. Moreover, In conducting his research, Mau 2013 analyzed how the relative clauses with relativizer that in the novel were translated from English into bahasa Indonesia and the problems in translating the relative clauses with relativizer that from English into Indonesia. Even though the previous studies and this research similarly analyzed the relative clause, but this research had different scope to achieve. For example, the previous study about translating the alchemist into sang alkemis analyzed the translation using the relativizer that, while this research extended the focuses to PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 11 the kinds of the relative clauses, functions of the relative clauses, and functions of fourteen relative pronouns including that. This research was also different in term of the media to analyze. In this research, I analyzed the relative clauses through the articles in the features columns in the JP. In relation to the theories used in this research, some of the theories were the same but it did not mean that this research copied the previous studies’ theories. The theories might be based from the same experts but will be used for different interests.

2. Analysis