Eralingua : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Asing dan Sastra
Vol 4, No 2 (2020): ERALINGUA

Sentence Pattern Contrastive Analysis of English and Sigulai Language

Saiful Akmal (Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh, Indonesia)
Fera Busfina Zalha (Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry)
Rita Hermida (Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry)
Satria Juni (Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh, Indonesia)
Lianita Ali Nasution (Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry, Banda Aceh, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Jul 2020

Abstract

This study focuses on analyzing and contrasting sentence pattern differences in both English and Sigulai languages. The study intends to find out the differences in sentence pattern between English and Sigulai language and how the sentence pattern of two languages are different. This current study was conducted by employing the qualitative method by using the contrastive analysis approach. Purposive sampling was used to select samples comprising two native-Simeulue students studying in Banda who speaks Sigulai. The findings show that there were contrast differences in verbal and nominal sentence patterns between English and Sigulai. Moreover, it can be concluded that Sigulai language has a non-configurational sentence pattern as many other Austronesian languages in Aceh and Indonesia in general.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eralingua

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Eralingua has been published by Department of Foreign Language Education, Faculty of Language and Literature Universitas Negeri Makassar. This journal receives research articles which examine about foreign language which use various approaches like linguistics, education, and literature. The Journal ...