Research Article
Identifying the Prepositions Used by the EFL Students in Descriptive Text
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-12-2023.2345632, author={Yulian Juita Ekalia and Ely Heldydiana Selamat and Fransiskus Jemadi}, title={Identifying the Prepositions Used by the EFL Students in Descriptive Text}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education, Humanities, Health and Agriculture, ICEHHA 2023, 15-16 December 2023, Ruteng, Flores, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICEHHA}, year={2024}, month={5}, keywords={descriptive text types prepositions efl students}, doi={10.4108/eai.15-12-2023.2345632} }- Yulian Juita Ekalia
Ely Heldydiana Selamat
Fransiskus Jemadi
Year: 2024
Identifying the Prepositions Used by the EFL Students in Descriptive Text
ICEHHA
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-12-2023.2345632
Abstract
Determining the types of prepositions that EFL students use when writing descriptive texts is the aim of this study. For this study, a descriptive qualitative research design was adopted. The students' writing provided the data that was gathered. The study's subjects were the sixty-six first-graders in UNIKA Santu Paulus Ruteng's English Language Education Program. In collecting the data, the researchers had a lot of things. First, selecting the titles which were given to the students. After that, students had to write a description text based on the titles given. Then, the researchers required to identify the types of prepositions found in the texts. The result of this study revealed that there were 249 trends of preposition of time (51,4%), 132 trends of preposition of place (76,8%), 8 trends of preposition of direction (6,04%). Based on the result of the research above, the researcher concluded that, the students used preposition of place (76,8%) dominantly compared to other types prepositions. The researcher came to the conclusion that students utilized place prepositions (76,8%) more frequently than other types of prepositions based on the findings of the aforementioned study. Prepositions were used by the EFL students as they were composing descriptive texts