ANALYSIS ON REQUESTING ACTS OF THAI STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT IAIN TULUNGAGUNG

Rozan, Muhammad Zain (2015) ANALYSIS ON REQUESTING ACTS OF THAI STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT IAIN TULUNGAGUNG. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Rozan, Muhammad Zain. Students Registered Number, 3213113018. 2015. Analysis on Requesting Acts of Thai Students of English Department at IAIN Tulungagung. Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. Sukarsono, M.Pd. Keywords: request act, request strategy, Thailand English students, syntactic realization, pragmatics. Language is a main tool of communication. In communication, people share, give, or exchange information with others. Communication depends on many things, not only recognizing meaning on every word in an utterance but also dealing with understanding the whole context. One aspect of language which is interested to be explored is meaning. A study which is concerned in studying contextual meaning is called Pragmatics. This study attempted to analyze request act. The act of request done by people is in order to fulfill the desire or need. This study aims to discover the kinds of request act which are found through Discourse Completion Test from Thai students of English Department at IAIN Tulungagung. The researcher hopes that study bring benefit to improve teaching learning process especially in speaking class, while language learners know how to use language in proper and meaningful manners. The research problems of this study were: 1) What are the types of strategy used by Thai students of English Department in conducting a request? 2) How are the syntactic realizations of requests used by Thai students of English Department at IAIN Tulungagung? The purpose of this study were: 1) To know what types of strategy used by Thai students of English Department at IAIN Tulungagung in conducting a request. 2) To find out how the syntactic realizations of requests used by Thai students of English Department at IAIN Tulungagung. The research design in this study is descriptive quantitative which employs content analysis. The data of this study are requestive acts used by Thai students of English Department at IAIN Tulungagung collected through an instrument namely DCT (Discourse Completion Test). The number of Thai students of English Department at IAIN Tulungagung are 12 students. This study found that: 1) the strategy used by Thai students of English Department at IAIN Tulungagung in conducting request are 101 utterances use query preparatory, 49 utterances use mood derivable, 40 utterances use obligation statement, 18 utterances use want statement, 16 utterances use suggestory formulae, 5 utterances use strong hints, 5 utterances use hedged performative, 3 utterances use mild hints, and 3 utterances used explicit performative. 2) The syntactic realization used in each category are; most of mood derivable strategy use positive pattern by reaching frequency 85.7%, all explicit performative strategy use positive verbal pattern, WH-Question is used in 80% of hedged performative strategy while 20% used positive verbal, all obligation statement strategy use positive verbal, only 5.5% use interrogative mood in want statement since the rest is positive verbal, reaching number 81.25% positive verbal dominates suggestory formulae, query formulae consist of 100% positive verbal, strong hints consist of 60% positive verbal and 40% interrogative mood, mild hints has 66.7% of negative verbal while the remaining is positive verbal. Based on the result of the research, the writer wants to suggest the future researcher and the English teacher. For the future researcher, the researcher of this study hopes they can conduct the research with the same topic in either different subjects. This topic is very interesting to be discovered, since there are many possibilities to have further research about pragmatics, especially in request act. For English teacher, they should know how to arrange various learning materials that are suitable and meaningful with the English learner needs.

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