Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

An Analysis on Students’ Ability in Distinguishing Polysemy and Homonymy

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Ratnawati Ratnawati, Sulastri Sulastri
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Available Online June 2019.
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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.280How to use a DOI?
Keywords
analysis; homonymy; polysemy; students’ ability; vocabulary
Abstract

Vocabulary is a central part of a language and a success of learning vocabulary when students understand what teachers are teaching and they can give feedback on teaching materials. The implementation of polysemy and homonymy into teaching and learning practice is one way to improve vocabulary. This study aimed to reveal students’ ability in distinguishing polysemy and homonymy. The method applied in this study was combination of quantitative and qualitative to discover the percentage of students who understood using polysemy and homonymy. Quantitative research with pre-test and post-test and qualitative research with questionnaire by using Likert scale. The sources of data were taken from the second semester students of STIE Wira Bhakti the Academic year 2017/2018 in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. There were 25 students who had been selected as sample. To collect the data, pre-test and post-test were given. The test was in the form of vocabulary test that includes homonymy and polysemy words. The data were analyzed by using a repeated measure T-test in SPSS 22. The findings showed that the result of post-test increased after the treatment of eight meetings. The mean score of post-tests (88.4) was higher than the pre-test (36.68). It was concluded that there was improvement of the students’ understanding on polysemy and homonymy from 36.68 to 88.48.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-749-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.280How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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