The Implementation of Structural Linguistic Approach through the Analysis of English Clauses into Phrases to Develop Achievements of Native Indonesian Speaking Students of English
The article was concerned with the syntactic analysis of English clauses into phrases based on the structural linguistic approach. The materials had covered the illustrations of the use of brackets and tree diagram to identify the constituents of phrases within the English clauses. The research aimed to reveal the power of structural linguistic approach through the analysis of constituents constructed in phrases to develop the students’ English achievements. The method had been organized to conduct an experimental design, including pre-test, treatment, and post-test. The test which was classified as an objective type consisted of 18 kinds of syntactic constituents. The research samples consisted of 40 persons. The course materials had been assumed as feed provided to the course participants. The data were organized and processed to obtain a mean percentage for each syntactic constituent. The findings revealed that the native Indonesian speaking students of English gained the improvements of the syntactic constituents manipulated in phrases being derived from clauses. The comparison between the results of pre-test with 41.53% and those of post-test with 66.39% had been done, so that the progress of achievements after treatment was obviously indicated to be significant (59.86%). The power of feed provision through analyses was also indicated to give positive effects to the given students as the course participants. The approach through the two kinds of analyses were profitably implemented for the sake of developing the students’ English achievements.