English Relative Clauses: How Students Use Them

Syarif, Hermawati (2017) English Relative Clauses: How Students Use Them. The Asian EFL Journal, 8. pp. 5-19. ISSN 1738-1460

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Abstract

The use of English relative clause is more preferable in written language. It is due to the fact that the writer wants to specify what is being talked. Since the relative clause is embedded to its matrix clause, the tendency to miss the element(s) of the sentence is seen in the students’ writing. The paper discusses the use of English relative clauses by the students of English Department of UNP Padang, West Sumatera, the problems and their causes. The analysis is by drawing the clauses from their matrix elements of complex sentences. As a whole, the results revealed that almost half of the relative clauses used by students are problematic, in which missing be in passive form is the most, followed by fragment sentence, disagreement with their modified nouns, the inappropriate choice of pronoun, and the ignorance of clause reduction and restriction. These problems were mostly caused by students’ lack awareness and learning style in grammar, the interference of cultural internalization of the Indonesian language, students’ lack of competence and insufficiency of exposure that deals with construction of English relative clause.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris - S1
Depositing User: Mrs. Wiwi Sartika
Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2017 08:02
Last Modified: 06 Apr 2017 01:22
URI: http://repository.unp.ac.id/id/eprint/1397

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