Putri Herawati , 2201413045 (2017) GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF CONVERSATION TEXTS IN “BAHASA INGGRIS” A TEXTBOOK PUBLISHED BY THE INDONESIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

Preview

PDF - Published Version Download (559kB) | Preview

Abstract

This study is an effort to analyze grammatical features of conversation models in an English textbook. Conversations in many school textbooks written by non-native speakers have the risk to be lack of naturalness of real-life communication. “Bahasa Inggris” was written by three Indonesian writers. Since conversations have specific features that differ from written language, this study aimed to find out the answer to the questions: how do conversation models in “Bahasa Inggris” share common features of naturally-occurring conversations?; how are non-clausal units as constructional principles of spoken grammar realized?; and what gambits are used? This research is descriptive qualitative. The data were collected from 16 conversation texts found in “Bahasa Inggris” for grade XII. The analyses of the data were done based on two criteria: analyzing grammatical features based on Biber et al.’s theory (1999), including spoken grammatical features, inserts, and syntactic non-clausal units, and analyzing conversation gambits based on Keller and Warner’s theory (1988), including kinds of gambits and gambits of four speech acts. The result of analyses showed that all conversation models in “Bahasa Inggris” share some common features of naturally-occurring conversation. However, some important features in informal conversation such as pauses, hesitations, repeats, expletives, and non-standard features did not appear. The nonexistence of those features made them lack naturalness of real-life communication. Inserts were found in 14 conversation texts and syntactic nonclausal units were found in 10 conversation texts. Opening, linking, and responding gambits were used based on the speech acts required in Curriculum 2013. Yet, the proportion use of six expressions of four speech acts was not equal. From the findings, it is suggested that the English teachers choose textbooks which provide conversation texts that represent naturally-occurring conversations, for example, the ones that are written by native speakers. Therefore, the students will be able to learn the real form of spoken language, not only learn a language through speaking.

Actions (login required)

View Item