Nurma Aini, 0203516016 (2018) THE COMPARISON OF LEXICAL BUNDLES IN CONVERSATION TEXTS BETWEEN FOUR CORNERS AND ENGLISH INTENSIVE COURSE BOOKS. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Aini, Nurma. 2018. The Comparison of Lexical Bundles in Conversation Texts between Four Corners and English Intensive Course Books. A Thesis. English Language Education. Program Pascasarjana. Universitas Negeri Semarang. Adviser I. Prof. Dr. Abdurrachman Faridi, M. Pd., Adviser II. Sri Wuli Fitriati, S. Pd., M. Pd., Ph. D. Key words: Lexical Bundle, Conversation Text, Textbooks Lexical bundle is the combination of words which usually hang together. By identifying the lexical bundles, it will give us insight what bundles that are usually used by native speakers, and how often they used the bundles in certain register, in this case, I identify the lexical bundles in conversation texts of textbooks. However, the comparison of lexical bundles in different series of textbooks; Four Corners which is written by native speakers and English Intensive Course, which is written by non-native speakers, give us insight about the similarities and the differences of lexical bundles in two textbooks in term of frequencies, structures, and functions. Therefore the objective of the study is to compare the lexical bundles in terms of frequency, structure, and function in conversation texts between Four Corners and English Intensive Course books. This study employed the corpus study. The data were conversation texts in two textbooks. I identified the lexical bundles from there and it did automatically by using Antconc 3.5.2. The unit of analysis is top 50 of the lexical bundles which are identified from two different textbooks and they were analyzed manually. The findings revealed that (1) the frequency of lexical bundles in Four Corners books are higher than in English Intensive Course books, (2) both in Four Corners and English Intensive Course books use the lexical bundles that incorporate verb phrase fragments as the dominant of structural types, and (3) the most frequent of functional type that is used by both authors, is special function, especially they use simply inquiry. According to the use of lexical bundles’ function, it inidcated that the speakers tend to present some questions to maintain their communication. This research gives some contributions to readers, teachers, authors of textbooks, students, and further researchers, theoretically, practically, and pedagogically. Theoretically, it explicates the frequency, structures, and function of lexical bundles in Four Corners and English Intensive Course books. Practically, it can be used as a building block for further research and its contribution to complete the previous studies. Pedagogically, it gives benefit to the educators (both teachers and authors of textbooks) to use that lexical bundles items in daily conversation, so, the students will imitate, adopt, or assimilate the using of lexical bundles.

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