A Descriptive study

on the students’
ability in analyzing
sentences using
semantic role

SEMINAR PROPOSAL

ANNISA FITRIYANTI
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 CONTENT
CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2
INTRODUCTION REVIEW OF LITERATURE

 Background of the Study  The Nature of Ability

 Objective of the study  The Nature of Linguistic

 Significance of the Study

 Definition of Key Terms

 CONTENT

CHAPTER 3
RESEARCH METHOD

 Approach & Type of Research

 Sample & Population

 Instrument of the Research

 Data Collection

 Data Analysis
CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION
 Background of The study

• A main characteristic of the English language is word order

• As future English teacher, English Department students’ must understand
word order to arrange a good sentence and how to analyze the sentence
• According to Aarts (2001), there are several ways to analyze sentences

 Function
Several ways to
 Category
analyzing sentences:
 Role

• The sentence that needs to be analyzed by its roles called semantic role
 Statement of Problem

How are students’ ability of English

department FKIP Unlam in analyzing
sentences using semantic role?”
 Objective of the Study

To give detailed description on the ability of

English Department students in analyzing
sentences using semantic role.
 Scope

1. Limited to students ability in analyzing

sentences using semantic role
2. Use theory by Radford (1997)
3. The location is located on English Department
Faculty of Education & Teacher Training UNLAM
4. The subjects is the PPL II students who have
passed semantic class
 Significance of the Study

Lectures Other Researcher

The finding of this This research is
research could be an hopefully can be an
input about the input and used as one
students ability in of the sources for
analyzing sentences further research
using semantic role
Definition of Key Term

ABILITY
• Ability is students competence in use their background knowledge
about semantic role in analyzing sentences using semantic role.

ANALYZING
• Analyzing is to study or examine something carefully in a methodical
way. In this case, analyze means to analyze a sentence by their
semantic role in Radford theory.

SEMANTIC ROLE
• Semantic Role or can be called as semantic case, thematic role is the
underlying relationship that a participant has with the main verb in a
clause.
CHAPTER 2

REVIEW
OF
LITERATURE
 Review of Literature

• The Nature of Ability

• The Nature of Literature
– Definition of semantic
– Sentence and proposition
– Semantic and Syntax
– Semantic Role
– Sentence and Predicate
 Semantic Role
(Radford, 1997)
• AGENT The fox jumped out of
the ditch
• THEME David passed the ball
wide
• EXPERIENCER Edna felt ill
 Semantic Role
(Radford, 1997)
• INSTRUMENT She cleaned the wound
with an antiseptic wipe

• GOAL Fia told the joke to her

friends
• SOURCE We got the idea from a
magazine

The nature of linguistic

 CHAPTER 3

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
 Approach and Type of
Research

• This research uses quantitative approach

• The method that is used is descriptive

method
 Population and Sample

Population Sample
• The populations of the • The sample of this
study are PPL II students research is take 20 % of
of English Department 126 students of PPL II
FKIP UNLAM class
• The research subject of
this study is 25 students’
 Technique of Data Collection

• In this research, the researcher uses test

and guided interview to find out the data
on students ability in analyzing sentences
in semantic role
 Technique of Data Analysis

Analyze the data

Measuring students’
based on 7 Make a score table of
ability by giving an
components of students
achievement test
Semantic Role

Analyze the correct

finding out the mean answer of each
of data category and give a
score

Classify the result of

students ability of
each category
 THANKYOU

ANNISA FITRIYANTI