SIDIQ, AHMAD (2019) DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON ONLINE WRITTEN COMMUNICATION OF INDONESIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Makassar.
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ABSTRACT AHMAD SIDIQ. 2019. Discourse Analysis on Online Written Communication of Indonesian University Students in Social Networking Sites. A Thesis. English Study Graduate Program, Universitas Negeri Makassar (Supervised by Muhammad Basri Jafar and Kisman Salija). This research is a qualitative-quantitative method which aims to find out the: (1) Lexical features, (2) Orthographic features, (3) Grammatical features, (4) Paralinguistic features, (5) Paralinguistic and graphic features, (6) Other features on Social Networking Sites, (7) Students’ perception on Social Networking Sites, and (8) Students’ responses on WhatsApp in learning English. The subject of the research was the second semester of Education Administration, Universitas Negeri Makassar in academic year 2018/2019 which consists of 33 students. Questionnaire, group discussion, and response question were chosen as the instruments for collecting the data which were then analyzed through reading and memoing, describing, classifying and interpreting, and reporting the data. The result of the research is: (1) In terms of lexical features, the students used interjection of vocabulary, abbreviation, word letter replacement and code mixing and code switching, (2) In terms of orthographic features, there were two types of this features that the students used that are words spelling including misspelling and capitalization, (3) In terms of discourse features, the students used interaction features such as question mark and there was also the stream of consciousness in the students’ writing that deals wuth the spoken language that represented to written form, (4) In terms of paralinguistic and graphic features, the students use excessive punctuation and emoticon to show their emotion, (5) In terms of grammatical features, it was found that the students used incorrect tense in their sentence, (6) In terms of other linguistic features, there was a written out laughter in which represent the sound of the students’ laughter in the chat room, (7) students’ perception on Social Networking Sites, namely: (a) Social networking was a problematic issue which affect their academic life, (b) Online network did not distract them from their studies, (c) Hours spent online could never be compared to the number they spent reading, (d) There was improvement in their grades since they became engaged into these social networking sites, (e) Unlimited access to online network did not affect their academic performance negatively, (f) Engaging in academic discussion on Twitter did not improve their academic performance, (g) WhatsApp was used to disseminate knowledge to their classmates, (h) They did not solely rely on information gotten from Wikipedia to do their assignments without consulting other sources, (i) The usage of Wikipedia had helped improving their grades, (j) Engaging in academic forums on Yahoo! did not reduce their rate of understanding, (k) They used materials gotten from blogging sites to complement what they had been taught in class, (l) They would perform well in their academics even if they stopped using social media, (m) viii Males are more effective at using social networking sites for nonacademic purposes, (n) Female students used social networking sites more to explicitly foster social connections, (o) Gender determined the level of social media network usage, (p) Male and female students used social media networks differently in different frequencies, (q) age had impact on the use of social media, (r) Social media became boring as they grow older, (s) social media was relevant to people of older generation, and, (t) Younger generation were the most active users of social media, and (8) There were 30 out of 33 students (90.9%) responded positively that learning through WhatsApp are beneficial for them, however, there were 3 students (9.1%) who responded the opposites. 30 students who had a tendency to respond positively had reasons as follows: getting correction easily, asking and discussing more relaxed, and learning more efficient. On the other hand, the students who responded negatively said that it was not easy to learn as sometimes they did not understand sentences. Keyword: Disourse analysis, online written communication, social networking sites.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Subjects: | PASCASARJANA |
| Divisions: | PROGRAM PASCASARJANA |
| Depositing User: | UPT PERPUSTAKAAN UNM |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2019 02:07 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2019 02:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/15777 |
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