Identifying and Analyzing Frequent Verbs Used in Students' Speaking and Listening Activity

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10.2991/conaplin-16.2017.79How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Verbs; Oral Communication; and Inflectional Morphemes

Abstract

This study discussed words used in English language. The writers aimed to know what are the most frequent words used by foreign language learners for their oral communication. The target words analysis were verbs only. Therefore, the problems of the study were formulated as follows: (1) what are most frequent verbs used in students' speaking process?,(2) what morphological process did occur?, and (3) what are the meaning of the verb found?. To answer the problems, the writers did conversation recording to a group of students. The population of this study was the English Study Program Students. The samples were taken from the 2, 4, and 6 semester students. The data were analyzed through several steps such as transcript the conversation, find the verbs, tally the verbs, make the verbs frequency, analyze the morphological process, and find the meaning of the verbs. It was found that think was the most dominantly verb occurred with 39 times out of 503. The inflectional morphemes were usually used to modifies the verbs. It was also found that the students were still facing problems in word choice.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Tita Ratna Wulandari
AU  - Cita Hikmah Yanti
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Identifying and Analyzing Frequent Verbs Used in Students' Speaking and Listening Activity
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 9)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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