An Analysis on Students’ Ability in Distinguishing Polysemy and Homonymy
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- 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.280How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- analysis; homonymy; polysemy; students’ ability; vocabulary
- Abstract
Vocabulary is a central part of a language and a success of learning vocabulary when students understand what teachers are teaching and they can give feedback on teaching materials. The implementation of polysemy and homonymy into teaching and learning practice is one way to improve vocabulary. This study aimed to reveal students’ ability in distinguishing polysemy and homonymy. The method applied in this study was combination of quantitative and qualitative to discover the percentage of students who understood using polysemy and homonymy. Quantitative research with pre-test and post-test and qualitative research with questionnaire by using Likert scale. The sources of data were taken from the second semester students of STIE Wira Bhakti the Academic year 2017/2018 in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. There were 25 students who had been selected as sample. To collect the data, pre-test and post-test were given. The test was in the form of vocabulary test that includes homonymy and polysemy words. The data were analyzed by using a repeated measure T-test in SPSS 22. The findings showed that the result of post-test increased after the treatment of eight meetings. The mean score of post-tests (88.4) was higher than the pre-test (36.68). It was concluded that there was improvement of the students’ understanding on polysemy and homonymy from 36.68 to 88.48.
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- © 2019, 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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TY - CONF AU - Ratnawati Ratnawati AU - Sulastri Sulastri PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - An Analysis on Students’ Ability in Distinguishing Polysemy and Homonymy BT - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 344 EP - 348 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.280 DO - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.280 ID - Ratnawati2019/06 ER -