EDULITE: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture
Vol 5, No 2 (2020): August 2020

Native language interference: The interference of passive voice

Saptin Dwi Setyo Hastuti (Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata AMPTA Yogyakarta)
Pratomo Widodo (Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Aug 2020

Abstract

This study investigated the interference of Bahasa Indonesia passive voice norm on English sentence. There are many studies that investigated the interference of native language on the learning of target language. Most of the studies talked about interference in the level of lexical, grammatical, phonetic, syntactical, and many more. However, the study about interference of a norm have never been discussed before. Thus, it is important to conduct this study to give some prove that norm of languages may interfere language learning. This study involved 50 students of Tour and Travel Business Department at Sekolah Tinggi Pariwisata (STP) AMPTA Yogyakarta. The data was collected by giving students 3 sentences in Bahasa Indonesia and they had to write them in English. The sentences that the students had produced were compared to the correct one. The finding shows that most of the students’ sentences were interfered by the norm of passive voice in Bahasa Indonesia. It is due to the lack of students’ understanding toward the concept of passive voice norms in both of Bahasa Indonesia and English. Thus, the teacher must give clear explanation about the norm of passive voice in both of languages.

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Journal Info

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edulite

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Subject

Education

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EduLite Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture is a blind peer review international journal which publishes manuscripts within the fields of teaching English as a first, second or foreign language, English language teaching and learning, English language teachers' training and ...