A study of apology speech acts by Indonesian EFL University Students

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Abstract


Speech acts have many types, but the researcher chose apology as a topic of discussion in this study. The use of apology speech acts on learning English in Indonesia, especially at the level of education has not been fully used properly. The researcher described the data which are found in a text made by Indonesian EFL learners. This study recruited a group of EFL students of 6th semester in Universitas PGRI Madiun (UNIPMA) as participants were chosen from 6th-semester students consist of 25 students. Data collected by using Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The result revealed that, apology strategy and syntactic-semantic pattern. The aim of this study is to investigate the strategies, syntactic-semantic pattern and pragmatic transfer This result is in line with the study of New Zealand as a comparison. And pragmatic transfer revealed that there was a significant difference between the Indonesian EFL learners and New Zealand’s pragmalinguistics performance. Then, from sociopragmatic aspect, some students have been able to distinguish the expression between friends and people of older age or higher level.


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