A Study of Ambiguity Found In Students’ English Workbook of Vocational High School

Ismi Wakhidah, Nur Jannah and , Prof. Endang Fauziati, M.Hum (2018) A Study of Ambiguity Found In Students’ English Workbook of Vocational High School. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.

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Abstract

The study aims to identify the types of ambiguity, describe the common types of ambiguity appear, and describe how to disambiguate fifty ambiguous sentences found in vocational school students’ English workbook entitled TELADAN from tenth grade, eleventh grade and twelfth grade. The object of the study is the ambiguous words or sentences in TELADAN English workbooks. Type of this study is descriptive qualitative research. The technique of collecting data is documentation. The technique of the analyzing data is using descriptive qualitative. It means that the researcher identifies the types of ambiguity by referring Hurford Heasly’s theory for lexical ambiguity and Kreidler’s theory for both lexical and structural ambiguity, describes the frequency of each ambiguity by using table, and decides the most dominant ambiguity is appeared by table and chart. In this research, the way to disambiguate the ambiguous sentences, the researcher uses different ways from some linguists. Findings show that the researcher finds lexical ambiguity (76%) and structural ambiguity (24%). Lexical ambiguity is divided into homonymy, polysemy, and anaphora. Structural ambiguity is divided into two types of structural ambiguity; there are prepositional phrase and adjective clause. There is 16% of structural ambiguity, eight sentences contain surface structural ambiguity and only three sentences contain deep surface structural ambiguity, the percentage of Deep surface structural ambiguity is only 6%. The results also show that ambiguous sentences can be resolved by using paraphrase and using picture.

Item Type:	Karya ilmiah (Skripsi)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ambiguity, Student workbooks, teladan.
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions:	Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	NUR JANNAH ISMI WAKHIDAH
Date Deposited:	06 Apr 2018 03:54
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2018 03:54
URI:	http://eprints.ums.ac.id/id/eprint/61351

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