ABSTRACT
Amalia Faulien. 2017. Capuring the Use of Colocation in Argumentative Essay
Writing on Second Semester Students in English Education Department of IAIN
Surakarta. Thesis. English Education Department. Islamic Education and
Teacher Training Faculty. State Islamic Institute of Surakarta.
Advisor : Dr. Imroatus Solikhah, M. Pd.
Key words : Collocation, lexical collocation, grammatical collocation,
Argumentative Essay
Collocation is a combination of words in a language that happens very
often and more frequently than would happen by chance. The aim of this study is
to analyze the types of collocation used by 2nd
semester students and the incorrect
collocation made by the students in their argumentative essay writing. The
researcher used content analysis with descriptive qualitative approach. The data
was collected by documenting the types and incorrect collocation on the students‟
worksheet of argumentative essay writing. The data were analyzes by reducing the
data, presenting the data, analyzing the data by using Benson theory and taking
the conclusion and verification.
This research used source triangulation and verification based on Oxford
Collocation Dictionary to get an appropriate data. There are two findings of this
research. First, the types of collocation used by the students. Second, the incorrect
collocation made by the students. The result of the study showed that there are 9
types pattern consist of lexical and grammatical collocation. The total of
collocation used by the students in their argumentative essay are 127 collocation,
it also showed that most of collocation produced by the students is lexical
collocation there are 74 collocation, while grammatical collocation are accounted
58 collocation. Adjective + Noun is the pattern of lexical collocation types which
commonly occurred in students argumentative essay.
The second finding is the incorrect collocations made by the students there
are: 1) quality character, 2) social domain, 3) far distance, 4) attractive dressed, 5)
important energy, 6) we must pause, 7) to understand the problem, 8) the
likelihood of blindness, 9) don‟t wear, 10) education ladder, 11) pretty easy, 12)
rectify our mindset, 13) quality generation, 14) observe intently, 15) the goal of
doing homework, 16) to managed, 17) tremendous pain and 18) virtual world.
From those findings, there are many types of collocation used by 2nd
semester
students and the incorrect collocation is still low. Based on those findings, the
researcher has suggestion for other researcher to investigate the relationship
between student‟s collocation competence and their academic success. It will be
of great value to understand whether collocation knowledge helps students
increase their academic achievement
