The use of prepositions after adjectives: analyzing the ability of second semester students of English education department at state institute of Islamic Studies Sunan Ampel Surabaya

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Insyatin, Insyatin (2012) The use of prepositions after adjectives: analyzing the ability of second semester students of English education department at state institute of Islamic Studies Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This research is conducted to answer three research problems. First, how do the second semester students of English Education Department show their skill using prepositions after selected adjectives. Second, what prepositions are often used incorrectly. Last, what are the causes of the students' errors. Descriptive qualitative research is used because the aims of this research are to describe the students' ability to use prepositions after selected adjectives and the causes of students' errors and also to identify which prepositions are often used incorrectly. Then, the data are taken from written test and questionnaire. The result of this research shows that most of the students can answer not more than 15 questions out of 25 questions. Then, there are six prepositions after selected adjectives that they often used incorrectly. First, the use of preposition after selected adjective "certain,,. Here 19 students often use preposition "in,, Second, t1ie use of preposition after selected adjective"shocked ,,_ There are 29 students often use preposition "of,. Third, the use of preposition after selected adjective "ready". Nineteen students often use preposition "to,,. Fourth, the use of preposition after selected adjective "disappointed,'.Nineteen students often use preposition "in". Fifth, the use of preposition after selected adjective "angry". There are eighteen students often use preposition "to". Sixth, the use of preposition after selected adjective "anxious". There are nineteen students often use preposition "in" after this selected adjective. Next, there are some causes of students' errors. Those are; the students get difficulties to memorize the fix prepositions followed the selected adjectives, they make such errors because of language intervention (Indonesian), the students get difficulties to memorize the selected adjectives, they do not understand the rules of using prepositions after selected adjectives, the students forget the material, and they do not understand the word meaning of prepositions after selected adjectives. Based on the result, the researcher cm1cludes that the students' ability in using prepositions after selected adjectives is poor. Then, there are six prepositions which are often used incorrectly in the use of prepositions after selected adjectives. Last, the dominant causes of students' errors are they get difficulties to memorize the fix prepositions after selected adjectives and because oflanguage intervention (Indonesian).