Siti Nur Fithriyati , 2201407048 (2011) The Realization Strategies of Requests by Senior Students of The English Department of The State University of Semarang. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The study aimed at describing the use of request strategies by senior students of the English Department of the State University of Semarang by focusing on how they produced the request. Requests are face-threatening acts requiring politeness strategies affected by various factors. It is not an easy task for language learners to perform requests in linguistically, socially and culturally appropriate manners. The data were taken from the participants‟ realization strategies of requests in certain situations consisting of seven different situations in which each situation was supposed to have different social distance, degree of imposition, gender, and power in the form of written elicitation. The elicitation prompts were given in Bahasa Indonesia in the purpose of avoiding misunderstanding. The data analysis was done qualitatively by means of describing the requests using request strategies proposed by Blum- Kulka et al (1989). The findings indicated that EFL learners tend to use conventionally indirect strategy to realize their requests in which the interrogative form is mostly used. The findings also showed that the higher power the participants have, the more direct request strategies used to convey their requests. The more social distance the participants have to the addressee, the more indirect request strategies are used, and the higher degree of imposition of the request, the more indirect the requests are used. However, there are no any big differences between male and female participants, but females tend to use more indirect request to lower power addressee than males Although, females consider more direct to the addressee who have the same power. They tend to make internal modification which is within the head act of requests. From the discussion I can also conclude that the participants of the study who are EFL advanced learners failed to show control over a wide range of forms and performing requests. In relating to English language learning and teaching, it is suggested that EFL teachers and learners should increase the awareness of the sociolinguistic aspects especially in conveying request for the betterment of communicative competence as the goal of language learning.

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