S ING 1202456 Table of content

TABLE OF CONTENTS

STATEMENT OF AUTHORIZATION ......................................................

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PREFACE .......................................................................................................

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...........................................................................

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ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................

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LIST OF TABLES .........................................................................................

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LIST OF FIGURES .......................................................................................

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LIST OF APPENDICES ...............................................................................

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION...................................................................

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1.1. Background to the Study....................................................................

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1.2. Research Questions ............................................................................

3

1.3. Aims of the Study ..............................................................................

3

1.4. Scope of the Study .............................................................................

3

1.5. Significance of the Research .............................................................

4

1.6. Research Methods ..............................................................................

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1.7. Clarification of Terms ........................................................................

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1.8. Organization of the Paper ..................................................................

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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW .....................................................

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2.1. Syntactic Awareness ..........................................................................

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2.2. Significance of Syntactic Awareness .................................................

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2.3. Factors Influencing Syntactic Awareness and Development.............

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2.4. Syntactic Structures in Indonesian ....................................................

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2.4.1. Indonesian Verbal Structures in Five Years Old .....................

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2.5. Language Development .....................................................................

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2.5.1. Characteristics of Language Development ..............................

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2.6. Previous Studies on Syntactic Awareness .........................................

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2.7. Concluding Remarks ..........................................................................

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY .......................................

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3.1. Formulation of Problem .....................................................................

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3.2. Research Design.................................................................................

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3.3. Participants .........................................................................................

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3.4. Data Collection ..................................................................................

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3.4.1. Instruments and Materials .......................................................

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3.4.2. Procedure .................................................................................

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3.5. Data Analysis .....................................................................................

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3.6. Concluding Remarks ..........................................................................

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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION .........................................

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4.1. General Findings in the Visual Task ..................................................

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4.1.1. Production................................................................................

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4.1.2. Syntactic Awareness in the Visual Identification Task ...........

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4.2. General Findings in the Audio Task ..................................................

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4.2.1. Comprehension ........................................................................

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4.2.2. Syntactic Awareness in the Audio Correction Task ................

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4.3. Factors Influencing Syntactic Awareness ..........................................

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4.4. Discussion ..........................................................................................

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4.4.1. General Discussion ..................................................................

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4.4.2. Categories of Verbal Structures ...............................................

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4.4.3. Implication between Syntactic Awareness and Acquisition ....

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4.4.4. Individual Performance on Syntactic Awareness ....................

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4.5. Concluding Remarks ..........................................................................

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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS.............................

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5.1. Conclusions ........................................................................................

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5.2. Suggestions ........................................................................................

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BIBLIOGRAPHY ..........................................................................................

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APPENDICES

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 2.1. The different perspectives on language acquisition .......................

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Table 3.1. Questions in the questionnaires ......................................................

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 3.1. The example of the visual task instrument in ditransitive ............

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Figure 3.2. The picture cards for the audio instruction ...................................

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Figure 3.3. The picture choices towards the audio instruction........................

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Figure 3.4. Model of syntactic awareness in this study ..................................

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Figure 4.1. Percentages of production findings...............................................

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Figure 4.2. Percentages of reading ability .......................................................

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Figure 4.3. Percentages of the visual identification task .................................

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Figure 4.4. Percentages of the comprehension task ........................................

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Figure 4.5. Percentages of the audio correction task.......................................

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Figure 4.6. Overall findings ............................................................................

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Figure 4.7. Percentages of the individual findings ..........................................

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Figure 4.8. Percentages of bilingualism ..........................................................

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Figure 4.9. Percentages of birth order .............................................................

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix 1

Surat Keputusan Pengangkatan Pembimbing

Appendix 2

Instruments in the Visual Task

Appendix 3

Intruments in the Audio Task

Appendix 4

Example of the Questionnaire

Appendix 5

General Findings in the Visual Task

Appendix 6

General Findings in the Audio Task

Appendix 7

Response Time in the Audio Task

Appendix 8

Data of the Children’s Backgrounds

Appendix 9

The Particular Anomalous Subjects and their Backgrounds

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