Research Article
Acquiring Extended Units of Meaning: The Role of Learner Corpus in Teaching Indonesian as A Foreign Language
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Deodatus Perdana Putra
Year: 2020
Acquiring Extended Units of Meaning: The Role of Learner Corpus in Teaching Indonesian as A Foreign Language
KEBIPAAN
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.9-11-2019.2295088
Abstract
One of the best ways to comprehend how people learn and acquire a foreign language is to look at what they produce in the target language. In this perspective, learner corpora have a special contribution to realize our goal. In this paper, we explore the relationship between learner corpus and teaching Indonesian as a foreign language. Data in this research is derived from Indonesian Learner Corpus (Korpus BIPA). At the moment, the Indonesian Learner Corpus consists of more than 2 million words. However, in this research, we only used learner sub-corpora which contains 815.470 words. This research employed method and techniques from corpus linguistics to depict how Indonesian learners acquire and master Indonesian. Learner corpus is a big thing, but in this research, we limit our discussion on how Indonesian learner acquire and master extended units of meaning in Indonesian which represent the concept of comfort, such as collocations with baik and bagus. This issue is related to a phenomenon called as an extended unit of meaning. The result shows that the student ability in differentiating the use of those words grew side by side with the increase of student competence levels.