THE ANALYSIS OF COORDINATING CONJUNCTION USED IN ENTERTAINMENT COLUMN ON THE JAKARTA POST IN JANUARY 2019 AND ITS APPLICATION FOR TEACHING GRAMMAR AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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2019-09-21
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Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Fakultas Pendidikan Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo
Abstract
Coordinating conjunctions are used to join two or more words, phrases, or
independent clauses. The two elements being joined must be grammatically equal or
similar to both importance and structure. This research aims atidentifying the types of
coordinating conjunction that found in the entertainment column articles of The
Jakarta Post and to describe the application of coordinating conjunction in teaching
grammar for students of senior high school.
This research belonged to qualitative research. The data were taken from
selected utterances which contained coordinating conjunction from entertainment
column on The Jakarta Post articles. The instrument of this research was the
researcher itself. In analyzing the data, the researcher observed the data, identified
and categorized the data that contained coordinating conjunction, rechecked the data
to make sure the data were organized properly, analyzed and interpreted the data, and
drew conclusions and suggestion.
In this study, the researcher found 192 items of coordinating conjunction used
in entertainment column on The Jakarta Post online newspaper. The researcher
analyzed 18 articles in January 2019 edition. Those are 4 (2.08%) coordinating
conjunction “For”, 167 (86.97%) coordinating conjunction “And”, 1 (0.52%)
coordinating conjunction “Nor”, 12 (6.25%) coordinating conjunction “But”, 8
(3.64%) coordinating conjunction “Or”, 0 (0%) coordinating conjunction “Yet”, and
1 (0.52%) coordinating conjunction “So”. The kind of coordinating conjunction
which is dominantly used is “And”. This research can applied in teaching grammar
especially in news item material for twelvth grade students at senior high school