Abstract:
Learning a foreign language for those who have their first and second
language often puts learners in imperfection mastery such as irrelevant
lexical choice, and source cultural bounds language utterances.
Knowing the concepts merely cannot guarantee the process of avoiding
mistakes or errors that learners have. There has been an amount of
research on learner language which focuses on language corpus but little
on highlighting the research specific language components
grammatically contributing to language learners’ competence.
Therefore, to fill the void, this study aimed at scrutinizing and yielding
information on the practical way of phenomena in Indonesians’
interference by knowing the students’ feature descriptions of language
competence. In this research, a guided interview was used to sub-ethnic
of Banjarese which covered several Banjar Kuala and Banjar Hulu preservice English teachers in getting the data of this study. The findings
reveal language problems in lexical aspect, semantic confusion,
incorrect use of word-formation pattern, prepositional misuse, and
problems in language syntax and discourse. The implication of this
study calls for recommendations to adopt techniques in mitigating
suggested learner language in the area of subject-verb concord, tenses,
and lexical problems in a process of language development
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