A STUDY ON SENTENCE TYPES USED IN JUSTIN BIEBER’S ALBUM MY WORLDS: THE COLLECTION AND ITS CONTRIBUTION IN TEACHING WRITING

Abstract

Shodiq, Nur Ahmad. 2014. A Study on Sentence Types Used in Justin Bieber’s Album My Worlds: The Collection and Its Contribution in Teaching Writing. A Thesis. English Education Program, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo. Consultant: Sri Widodo, S.S, M. Hum. Song is not only just for fun and amuse, but also for being an effective way to stimulate writing activity in teaching-learning process. It is because of the song containing words and sentences to learn by the student. The teacher can use this media to convey the lesson and introduce the sentence types such as simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Therefore, this research is about study on sentence type used in Justin Bieber’s album My World: The Collection. There are two aims of this research. The first aim is to identify kind of sentence types used in Justin Bieber’s album My World: The Collection. The second aim is to describe the implementation of teaching writing using song of it album. In doing this research, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative methode. In collecting the data, the researcher takes data from internet, observes the data available in the data sheet, rechecks, and makes sure all data well organized. In analyzing the data, the researcher identifies and analyzes the kind of sentence types on the data, describes and discusses the data, and draws conclusions based on the data analyzed. Moreover, the researcher describes the implementation of teaching writing about sentence types found in Justin Bieber’s album My Worlds: The Collection. The result shows that in Justin Bieber’s album My Worlds: The collection, there are four types of sentence found: simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence and compound complex sentence. The total number of sentence types found are as follows: 1) 234 simple sentence (57, 6 %), 2) 53 compound sentence (13, 1 %), 3) 108 complex sentence (26, 6 %), 4) 11 compound-complex (2, 7 %).