Rachel Kartika Sari, 0203518028 (2021) THE COMPARISON IN THE USE OF APPRAISALS BY FILIPINO AND INDONESIAN TEACHERS IN THEIR CASUAL CONVERSATIONS WITH COLLEAGUES AT MARIA REGINA SCHOOL. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Casual conversation is considered a way of building trust and personal relationships among teachers. Familiarity and intimacy among professionals can be generated through simple talks for maintaining friendliness and togetherness among teachers. There are ways of how teachers engage themselves in a talk to carry on the conversation such as expressing their feeling and extending the conversation to the point where other speakers are drawn to a discussion with their dearest colleague. At this point, the researcher believes that in the most casual way, Filipino and Indonesian teachers have different ways of engaging themselves in a conversation. The researcher valuated how speakers negotiated meanings in various social contexts where they set relevant words or expressions (Young, 2011). Therefore, appraisal framework is used to identify the similarities and differences of how teachers express and engage themselves throughout a conversation. The appraisal became the fundamental framework used by the researcher to mark and elicit codification of intersubjectivity in the discourse, taking into consideration both the epistemological and especially interpersonal expressions. These expressions and words were distinguished based on the appraisal systems: Attitude, Engagement, and Graduation. By using Martin and White’s framework, the researcher was able to identify the manifestation of words that fell into the three categories mentioned. The researcher found that teachers who come from different cultural backgrounds might differ in expressing their thoughts and feeling. The finding of this research was then supported and related to the values and culture that ground the way teachers expressed and engaged themselves in a conversation. The result indicated that teachers produced more items included in entertain. These items reflected kinship and opened discussion among teachers through questions and the use of modals. In the attitude systems, Filipino teachers were dominant in expressing security that reflected confidence, togetherness, and claim made in the monogloss. Indonesian teachers expressed their fascination and contentment which influenced the significant number of positive appreciation about things they tasted, felt, and experienced. In the item of judgment, Indonesian teachers expressed their discernment related to normality while judgment of capability was expressed more by Filipino teachers. In the graduation system, teachers mostly used force intensification to express the degree of intensity, repetition, and quality. The result archived became the significance of the research where the readers learn to be more considerate in expressing their feeling and emotion in casual talk. Reasearche emphasized that learning words in context matters since it becomes a strategy for everyone to nurture a positive conversation with others.

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