WORD ASSOCIATION OF THE 7th AND 8th GRADES STUDENTS IN PANGANDARAN BEACH

Abstract

Pangandaran Beach is located in Pangandaran Regency, it is about 200 km from Bandung, the capital city of West Java Province. Word Association test was done to the 7^th and 8^th grades students in SMP1 Pangandaran. The students are given  the video about daily life in many kinds of situations. After some discussion, the researcher writes some words which are taken from the video, the students should write the associated words with the researcher’s words that come first (instantly) from their mind. The goal of the research is to describe the types of word association that the students write, there are four types of word association: coordination, collocation, superordination and synonymy. The other goal is to describes what type of word association that mostly are written by the students. The method of the research is descriptive analysis research in qualitative method. The Theories are taken from Aitchison (1987), Field (2003). The results are many of the students are written the types of word association of the superordination and collocation.

 Key words: Psycholinguistics, word association, mind, types, the students’ of 7^th and 8^th grade.