International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL)
Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2014, PP 116-130
ISSN 2347-3126 (Print) & ISSN 2347-3134 (Online)
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Structural Linguistics and its Implication to Language
Teaching
Noer Doddy Irmawati, Dr. M. Hum
Graduate Program of English Education
Ahmad Dahlan University Yogyakarta
Abstract:
Structural Linguistics is an approach to linguistics and is a part of overall approach of
structuralism. It is stressed examining language as a static system of interconnected units. Structural
Linguistics involves collecting a corpus of utterances and then attempting to classify all the elements of the
corpus at their different levels: the phonemes, morphemes, lexical categories, noun phrases, verb phrases,
and sentence types (Wikipedia).
Language Learning needs to apply language education because it is the teaching and learning of foreign or
second language. Language education is also a branch of applied linguistics that can be applied to the
teaching of language. In teaching language, the teaching learning strategies are also be applied because
they have attracted increasing focus as a way of understanding the process of language acquisition
(Wikipedia).
Structural linguistics has its implication to language teaching, such as: there is a key concept that must be
operated; language learning must be viewed in one contex and background; language forms as sign
system; there is one good method in teaching language; linguistics finding of structuralism model can be
applied in teaching language; language has rule, pattern, and system that must be followed; and structural
linguitics can be used as an alternative method in language teaching.
