A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of the Words of Aku and Saya in Indonesian Children Essays

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10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_20How to use a DOI?

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Children; Corpus; Essay; Writing

ABSTRACT

In writing essays, children often have difficulty putting together words to express their thoughts, even for simple themes such as self-introduction and school. A hundred children aged 6 -10 years from various cities in Indonesia have filled out a questionnaire and composed four short essays with the theme of self-introduction. They are directed to the theme and free to write without rules and restrictions. The research aims at figuring out the word patterns in the Indonesian children's essays through linguistic corpus analysis and identifying the thoughts and desires of Indonesian children conceived in the essays. The four hundred Indonesian children's essays have been processed into the Indonesian Children's Story Corpus consisting of 7,815 tokens and 1,650-word types. Based on the frequency analysis, it has been found that the domination of the used word is aku as 5,6% compared to saya merely used as 3,6% of all over the tokens. Based on the collocation analysis, aku in the children's essays tended to use three expressions, namely (1) 11% preference, (2) 7% ownership, and (3) 6% desire of the 440 hits. Meanwhile, saya used to express (1) 25% desire, (2) 19% name, and (3) 18% negative sentences followed by the word of tidak of the 77 hits. The concordance and cluster analyses of the corpus identified three sub-essay topics: selves, families, and hobbies. The essays revealed that most Indonesian children experienced bullying and learning difficulties in their schools. They also necessarily yearned for family relationships and enjoyed quality time with parents.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Devi Ambarwati Puspitasari
AU  - Hernina
AU  - Indah Okitasari
AU  - Yenny Karlina
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of the Words of Aku and Saya in Indonesian Children Essays
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 128
EP  - 134
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_20
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_20
ID  - Puspitasari2022
ER  -