A  Contrastive Analysis Between British and American Varieties: A Case-Study of English Accents

Sulaiman, Masagus; Yuliani, Sri

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“…However, the differences between British and American English in this study were concluded from the study of (Tibenská, 2012) entitled Comparative Analysis of British and American English, the study done by (Sulaiman & Yuliani, 2017) entitled A Contrastive Analysis between British and American Varieties: A Case-study of English Accents, and journal of (Fares, n.d.) entitled British English and American English: History and Differences. The differences are listed below as follow:…”

Section: British and American English Differencesmentioning

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“…Vol.7/Nomor 2/Oktober 2021 Thus, studies on the lexical differences between British and American English have been undertaken by many researchers worldwide using a multiplicity of perspectives and approaches. Those studies fall under three major areas based on the methods that they used, namely 1) survey method: (Lindell, 2014), Thörnstrand (2008), and (Halldórsdóttir, 2014), 2) contrastive method: (Sukmawati, 2017), (Sulaiman & Yuliani, 2017) 3) corpus method: (Wilkinson, 2014).…”

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Students’ Lexical Choice Tendency and Ability to Distinguish British and American English Lexical

Zanah¹,

Ramlan²,

Nurmala

2021

JBIT

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This study aims to analyze the lexical choice tendency and ability to distinguish British and American English lexical. The participants were 20 students of the English Education Program in one of the state universities in Bandung. This research used the qualitative descriptive method to analyze the data. To collect the data, this research used tests as a technique. The lexical that were examined in the tests were based on Sukmawati (2017). The participants were given tests that were split into two parts in the form of multiple choices to examine the lexical choice tendency and measure the ability to distinguish British and American English lexical. The number of questions was 30 for each test, so the total number was 60 questions. The computation for the current study used simple calculation central tendency which was mean score, also a percentage, and tendency formula. The results show that the English Education Program students were able to be consistent in their lexical choice with most of the students tending to American English at the rate of 60%, followed by British English at the rate of 25%, and the rest 15% were still not able to be consistent in their lexical choice as they tend to Mix. The students were also able to distinguish British and American English lexical as they can attribute the examined lexical items to the right variety with the mean score of 58.5 that categorized into the average level. This indicates that the results of the current study are in contrast with Lindell (2014) who revealed the students tend to mix and are unable to distinguish British and American English lexical.

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Section: British and American English Differencesmentioning

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Students’ Lexical Choice Tendency and Ability to Distinguish British and American English Lexical

Zanah¹,

Ramlan²,

Nurmala

2021

JBIT

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“…The English language is a foreign language for Indonesia, and the second language for Indonesia is a local language that is different in every single area in Indonesia. According to Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams (2013) (as cited in (Sulaiman & Yuliani, 2017)), language is identified as a means or instrument of communication used by people whenever they come together, whether they play, fight, make love, or make automobiles, and they talk. One of the languages that is used most in English.…”

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A Contrastive Analysis of Verb in Indonesian and English Language on Sindo News

Pasaribu

Siringoringo

Nainggolan

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This study contrasted verb features that exist between the two languages, with Indonesian as the source language and English as the target language. The contrastive analysis is used to help second language or foreign language learners understand the target language being studied more easily. The problem limitation is focused on analyzing the differences in verbs for action and non-action verbs between English and Indonesian (https://ekbis.sindonews.com/read/824401/33/dunia-gonjang-ganjing-luhut-ekonomi-kita-salah-satu-yang-terbaik ) in SINDO News. The research used descriptive qualitative research. The technique of analyzing data used in this study is based on contrastive analysis from SINDO News. The researchers searched and found data from Google media. After that, the researcher analyzes each word from the economic news, which includes the action verb and non-action verb. Next, the researcher analyzes for words that have the same meaning in the action verb and non-action verb by using an English dictionary, then compares them with the same word in Indonesian using the Indonesian dictionary. The results of the analysis show that there are 15 verbs found in news.

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“…(Richards, et al, 2002) in Sulaiman & Syahri, 2022;Sulaiman, Syahri & Saputri, 2022). It can also be defined as a set of arbitrary symbol having conventionalized meanings and being used for communication, operating in a speech community (Sulaiman, 2020;Sulaiman, 2018;Sulaiman, 2017;Sulaiman & Yuliani, 2017). Language refers to the concrete act of speaking, writing or signing in a given situation.…”

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English and Indonesian Singular Forms: A Case of Nouns

Sulaiman¹,

Firdaus

2022

ANAPHORA

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This study is aimed at finding out the similarities, dissimilarities, and possible learning difficulties faced by students learning English and Indonesian singular forms as well as its contribution to TEFL. The researchers used a qualitative research design. The documentation technique was used to collect the data. To analyze the data, the researchers used descriptive analysis. The results showed that there were four similarities and two dissimilarities between English and Indonesian singular forms. The four similarities were in indefinite article, definite article, quantitative adjective, and units of measurement. While the two dissimilarities were in the definite article and definite article. The possible learning difficulties faced by students learning English and Indonesian singular forms were that they were not very familiar with grammar rules and it made them perplexed and created mistakes when writing and speaking. The contribution was as teaching guidance that assists English teachers to create a better teaching Grammar design on singular forms in terms of countable and non-countable nouns.

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A Contrastive Analysis Between British and American Varieties: A Case-Study of English Accents

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Students’ Lexical Choice Tendency and Ability to Distinguish British and American English Lexical

Students’ Lexical Choice Tendency and Ability to Distinguish British and American English Lexical

A Contrastive Analysis of Verb in Indonesian and English Language on Sindo News

English and Indonesian Singular Forms: A Case of Nouns

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