Interlanguage system permeability in students' composition of Islamic Senior High School (MAN) Surabaya

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Hidayah, Novita Latipah (2019) Interlanguage system permeability in students' composition of Islamic Senior High School (MAN) Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

There are two factors that influence students’ interlanguage system. Those are students’ first language and students’ target language. This research is conducted to know about interlanguage system of students in learning target language (English). The focus is to describe the kinds of students’ first language and the mastery of target language into interlanguage system, and also to know the degree both of students’ first language and target language. This study is descriptive research. The researcher used the written text from Islamic Senior High School (MAN) Surabaya Students as the data. The theory of interlanguage and the influence of first and target language is used to answer the research problems.The data of this research consist of erroneous sentences taken from composition written by the students. In analyzing the data there are four major steps have been done, namely: identification of errors, classification, description, and explanation. To recognize the errors, the researcher has utilized the framework provided by Elis and Barkhuizen. The researcher has accumulated 103 sentences containing different type of errors and used as the data of this study. The errors accumulated, then, classified in order to find out the influence of the students’ first language (Indonesian) and the mastery of target language (English) into the students’ interlanguage system. The reseacher gets the conclusion from this study as follows: (1) the students’ interlanguage system is influenced by first language (Indonesian) and the mastery of target language (English); (2) the influence is in the level of morphology and syntax; (3) the students’ first language contribute more influence compared with the mastery of target language as the percentage show.