Nurmalasari, Laila (2021) An analysis of ergativity in writing skill of the eleventh graders at SMA Darusy Syafa’ah Kotagajah in The Academic Year of 2020/2021. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The objectives of this research were to investigate the most dominat type of ergativity investigated in students’ writing and to analyze the use of ergativity in students’ writing skill of the eleventh graders at SMA Darusy Syafaah. The researcher analyzed the problem based on the written consideration of the problem which was carried out in the pre-survey process. Therefore, this research is expected to be useful in describing the phenomenon of using ergativity in students' writing.

This research method is a qualitative research in the form of a case study conducted at SMA XI Darusy Syafaah Kotagajah. The main source of this research is the documentation of writing assignments of XI at SMA Darusy Syafaah Kotagajah which consists of 10 students. The researcher used observation and documentation in collecting data. Observation was made to determine the most frequent types of ergativity and to find out the use of ergativity that was most often used in students' writing.

Furthemore, the results of the first research were related to the most dominant type of ergativity used in students' writing, namely the transitivity type. This is because there are 12 or (53%) uses of Transitivity found in the student's writing. In addition, the result of the second research is the use of ergativity in the writings of eleventh graders. Based on the results of the research, the researcher concluded that the use of ergativity in students' writing was dominated by appropriate use. That is because there are 16 correct or (70%) in student writing.

Keywords: analysis, ergativity, intransitivity, transitivity, writing.

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