Problem of Writing Personal Letter in German to Students at the State University of Surabaya Base on Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmen

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10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_149How to use a DOI?

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writing problems; writing letter; GER

Abstract

The results and discussion of this article indicate that there are problems in writing letters by students at the German Language Education Study Program, Department of German Language and Literature, UNESA. This study aims to find the problems of students in writing personal letters of students in writing personal letters based on the GER (Gemeinsamen europäischen Referenzrahmen für Sprachen). This research type is descriptive qualitative. Subjects were 25 fourth semester students of the 2020 batch who programmed Schriftlicher Ausdruck course. Data in the form of words, sentences, phrases in personal letters written by students. The overall data obtained were analyzed through several stages: (1) Data reduction, (2) Data presentation, (3) Conclusions. The research found three aspects of students’ problems in writing personal letters, including: 1) Berücksichtigung der Leitpunkte, 2) Communicative Gestaltung, and 3) Formale Richtigkeit. In the Berücksichtigung der Leitpunkte aspect, 9 people or 36% could write the four Leitpunkte correctly in terms of content and scope, while 16 people (64%) wrote less than four Leitpunkte and with limited coverage. The Communicative Aspect of Gestaltung in 12 people (48%) of sentence links between Leitpunkte is systematic and coherent, while 13 people (52%) there is a systematic jump and coherence between sentences in the written letter text. Based on the results of the analysis, in the Richtigkeit Formale aspect, problems were found in the fields of morphology (6.3%), morphic-syntax (28%), syntax contained (16.6%), lexical (18.1%), orthographic (31%).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fahmi Wahyuningsih
AU  - Raden Roro Dyah Parnaningroem
AU  - Lutfi Saksono
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/03/19
TI  - Problem of Writing Personal Letter in German to Students at the State University of Surabaya Base on Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmen
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2022 (IJCAH 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1381
EP  - 1390
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_149
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-008-4_149
ID  - Wahyuningsih2023
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