Metode Ijtihad Khomeini Dan Perubahan Sosial

This research concerns to contrast two languages, Indonesian language as the source language and English language as the target language. And the limitation of problem is focused in contrasting declarative sentence patterns in both languages. However, in this research, the researcher uses Descriptive Analysis as the methodology; she analyzes Indonesian and English declarative sentence patterns, which is categorized into transitive, bitransitive, intransitive, nominal, adjectival, prepositional, and numeral. Then she applies Contrastive Analysis method to contrast the patterns and to find out the differences and similarities. Moreover, the objective of this research is to know the differences and similarities of declarative sentences in the two languages, and also to find out errors that students do more in making declarative sentences. Next, she provides 35 Indonesian declarative sentences used as the instrument to support this research that are translated into English (target language) by 26 students, as the respondents. Finally, the writer concludes that the similarities of declarative sentence patterns between Indonesian and English language found in three categories, those are transitive, bitransitive, and intransitive; however the differences ones found in the nominal, adjectival, prepositional, and numeral category. In addition, she concludes that there are many Indonesian students who learn English language make errors in making English declarative sentences whose different patterns with Indonesian, that are in nominal, adjectival, prepositional, and numeral sentence. In other words, the errors happened among the students caused by interference (negative transfer) they did