Classifying Word Association Test (WAT) Response in Song Study at Students Senior High School 1 Sungai Aur

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10.2991/assehr.k.210914.013How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mental lexicon, Word Association test, Vocabulary

Abstract

Vocabulary development is a significant purpose in any language teaching. The term that manages vocabularies in the person is named ‘mental lexicon’. The mental lexicon describes a dictionary that upgrades every word, meaning, and associate them with another word in the mind. Word Association Test is one measurement to know how depth vocabularies understanding are. It also called Word Affiliation Test and a greatly-renowned research technique in linguistic and psychology research by using word stimulus to acquire the lexical relation amid words. In senior High school, song study is taught at the end of the syllabus. The researcher connected the song with the vocabularies of students and tried to examine the word types of association they are used so they feel easy and enjoyed learning English and have a significant result in their study. The classification of word association composition concentrated on the two central fundamentals of language: syntagmatic; It should be connected with a phrase or syntactic framework and paradigmatic; involve another words or syllable that might switch connection. This research aims to explore the students’ dept understanding of the word in the mind and to apply it in the English study. This is a qualitative study and analyzes the response of the students based on syntagmatic and paradigmatic types. The source of this research is got from a preliminary student’s senior high school at Sungai Aur. Then, the data are analyzed and classified into syntagmatic and paradigmatic.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Trisa Wendari
AU  - M. Zaim
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/14
TI  - Classifying Word Association Test (WAT) Response in Song Study at Students Senior High School 1 Sungai Aur
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT-8 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 68
EP  - 71
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210914.013
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210914.013
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