Tesis

Efl teachers\' perception and production of requests / Vita Nur Santi

Abstrak
Unpublished Thesis. English Language Education Department. Graduate Program of the State University of Malang. Advisors (1) Dr. Yazid Basthomi M. A. (2) Drs. A. Effendi Kadarisman M.A. Ph.D. Key words EFL teachers request perception request strategy This study aimed at investigating Indonesian EFL interlanguage request behaviors in terms of both perception and production of requesting acts. Data were selected from eligible subjects with some criteria i.e. EFL teachers who had been teaching in high schools and universities and taking a graduate program in English Education under the scholarship of Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA) at the State University of Malang. From 107 Teachers who were eligible to be selected as the subjects of this study only 65 teachers who returned the questionnaire 19 were available to act out in Role Play and 10 agreed to be interviewed. The design used in this study is descriptive research. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were employed. Data for analysis consisted of 1950 perception responses collected through six-point Scaled-Response Questionnaire (SRQ) and 659 production responses obtained through Discourse Completion Task (DCT) and Role-Play in which degree of Imposition Status and Distance were contextual factors embedded in each situation. In addition there were some data gathered via Interview to response three main questions regarding teachers perception. Responses of request perception were analyzed in terms of Imposition degree Difficulty to make request and Possibility to perform request. On the other hand request production were coded into the head act of request strategies comprising Direct Conventional Indirect and Non-Conventional indirect strategies following the coding scheme of CCSARP (Blum-Kulka House Kasper 1989). Through quantitative and qualitative data analysis some important findings were obtained. Regarding the perception data most EFL teachers in this study were aware of the difference between English native-speaker s culture and Indonesian culture. Yet in terms of the teaching and learning process in the classrooms only few teachers apply the curriculum and understand well what and how to teach to EFL students with regard to pragmatic competence. In terms of strategy preference most of the responses found in both DCTs and Role-Plays show that Indonesian teachers tended to employ conventionally indirect strategy namely query preparatory as 86. 3% found in DCT and 67. 8% found in Role-Play. As a consequence there are two pragmatic transfers occurring in this study. First negative socio-pragmatic transfer occurs when teachers fall back to their native cultural backgrounds in perceiving context-internal factors with regard to context-external factors involving in each situation in which those perception is different from those of English native speakers. Second positive pragmalinguistic transfer occurs when teachers preferred to employ query preparatory strategy in producing the requests almost in all situations. This occurring is caused by the teachers competence in terms of linguistic forms in English requests which follow those in their native language. Based on the research results there are three suggestions which are recommended following the results of this study. First for EFL teachers it is suggested not only to be aware but also apply what they have understood particularly in the sense that language is taught in order to make students able to use it in both written and oral communication. Second for teachers producers it is suggested that they give more attention on pragmatic aspects integrated in English teaching and learning for those aspects are often neglected by EFL teachers. Third for future researchers focus on teachers perception by using a survey and to provide genuine data on teachers competence toward pragmatic awareness within EFL classrooms there should be not only one communicative act investigated but more than merely requesting act. As well the study related to politeness should be conducted more deeply and focused on the aspects that are not discussed in here such as the inter-relationship between locutionary illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in requesting.

Informasi Detail

DDC

Rt 428.07 SAN e

Prodi

Universitas Negeri Malang. Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, 2010.

Deskripsi Fisik

xi, 137 lembar : il., tab. ; 30 cm.

Bahasa

No Reg

02772/KI/10

Edisi

Tesis (Pasca Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang, 2010

Subjek

1. BAHASA INGGRIS - PEMBELAJARAN

Pembimbing

1. YAZID BASTHOMI ; 2. A. EFFENDI KADARISMAN

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