PHRASAL VERB FOUND IN TEDX TALKS SPEECH ENTITLED “YOU ARE CONTAGIOUS”

Abstract

Phrasal verbs have a reputation of being problematic for the students around the world who learn about language including Indonesians. It occurred since the phrasal verb can have more than one meaning, it depends on the context in which the phrasal verbs are used. This study aimed to identify types of phrasal verbs are used in TEDx talks speech entitled “You are Contagious?, to find outs the most dominant phrasal verb exceed in TEDx talks speech entitled “You are Contagious”?, to describe what contributions of phrasal verb found in TEDx talks speech entitled “You are Contagious in lexical studies. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research approach. Source of data of this research was the TEDx talks speech entitled “You are Contagious”. The researcher found four types of phrasal verb. Those were transitive phrasal verb 54,8% (17 of 31), intransitive phrasal verb 25,8% (8 or 31), separable phrasal verb 6,5% ( 2 of 31), transitive phrasal verb with two objects 12.9% (4 of 31), and none for non-separable phrasal verb. The most dominant one was transitive phrasal verb 54,8% (17 of 31). The phrasal verbs realized in TEDx Talks Speech Entitled “You are Contagious” can be used as the reference or alternative source learning to lexical study. The researcher suggests teacher/lecturer, she or he can use speech script or video as one of alternative media to teach about phrasal verb.