Producing Active Sentences In Bahasa Indonesa: A Case Study Of Indonesian As A Foreign Language Education (IFLE) Students

Ulil Amri, Zubaidah Zubaidah, Aprilis Kartika Putri

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The aim of this research is to identify and to compare the ability of Indonesian as a Foreign Language Education (IFLE) students in producing active sentences. The data were active sentences in Bahasa Indonesia produced by 8 international students who had taken and completed the IFLE classes in two Indonesia’s universities namely, Universitas Andalas and UIN Imam Bonjol Padang from various nationalities across the globe. The focus on this research is to investigate mistakes and errors of IFLE students in generating Bahasa Indonesia’s active sentences and to seek influencing factors in producing utterances. The results indicates that common mistakes and error were categorized into two: 1) in morphosyntactic process and 2) in grammatical structures. Factors that influence the existing mistakes and errors lead to three points: 1) grammatical structures generalization, 2) lexical generalization, and 3) the influences of English language.

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active sentences, foreign language learners, grammatical structures, Indonesian as Foreign Language Education (IFLE), morphosyntactic

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15548/rielt.v11i1.12397

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