The Analysis of Prepositions in News Item of The Jakarta Post and Its Application to Teach Writing in Senior High School

Abstract

Grammar is one important micro skill in English Language Teaching. It is the rule of structure in teaching writing. In grammar, there are many material to learn but in this research the researcher just focus on one part of grammar that is preposition. In this resesarch, the researcher focus on analysis of preposition which contain in news item entitled The Jakarta Post. This research used descriptive qualitative research because the data analysis inductively building from particulars to general themes, and the researcher making interpretations the meaning of the data. In analyzing the data, the researcher took the data in news item in The Jakarta Post and classifying them. The result of this research indicate that there are some types of prepositions. The researcher found that there are 50 prepositions of place (58.13%), 10 prepositions of time (17.44%), 15 prepositions of manner (11.62%), and 11 prepositions of direction (12.79%). The application of this research is applied in teaching writing with the theme is news item in Senior High School.