The Comparison of Bilingual and Monolingual Learners Ability in Identifying Sentences using Reduced Clause

Authors

  • Clara Herlina Bina Nusantara University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21512/lc.v3i2.339

Keywords:

reduced clause, monolingual, bilingual

Abstract

English and Indonesian have similar rules in the placement of head noun in adjective clause, that is head noun precedes the clause. However, in English it is possible to reduce the clause while in Indonesian it is not possible to do it. This difference causes difficulty for students learning English especially those whose language background is different. Binus University students come from different provinces around Indonesia and thus they have different language backgrounds. The research declares the difference of this background in identifying reduced clause. They are categorized into monolinguals if they only speak Indonesian at home and bilinguals if they speak both Indonesian and their ethnic languages. The purpose of this study is to find out whether bilinguals perform better than monolinguals, or vice versa, in processing reduced clause sentences.
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