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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelAs we are approaching the globalization era, English
is becoming more and more important for Indonesian people
and this has aroused the writer's interest to do a re-search
on the strategy used by the Indonesian speakers
acquiring English. Most parents have their young children
taught English not only at schools but also at private
courses even at early stage. Some of them send their
children abroad to be able to master the English language
as well as possible. They expect their children later are
to be able to compete with the world by having a good
command in English.
This study specifically is an observation of gram-matical
transfer strategy of the Indonesian speakers ac-quiring
English. The focus was set after the writer dealt
with many of the utterances of Indonesian speakers when
speaking English and after she studied grammatical-trans-fer
theories. These theories claim that some aspects of
Indonesian grammar are expected to be transferred when the
respondents speak in English.
As English is different from Indonesian at some
points, the writer is interested in analysing elements in
English that function differently when used. The English
sentences produced make use of the Indonesian grammar
rules, the writer sees this as cases of grammatical transfer from Indonesian to English.
The analysis of the fifteen respondents* utterances
proved the researcher's hypothesis to be true. There are
grammatical transfer errors in pluralization of nouns,
case form of nouns and pronouns, position and comparison
of adjectives and adverbs, and verb forms according to
time and aspect. And the Indonesian grammar rules which
are the pronest to transfer are the use of the base form
of the verb for 3rd person singular subject with simple
present tense as seen in the data elicited through instru-ment
one and the non-existence of the verb 'be' as seen in
the data elicited through instrument two.