Different Strategies in Expressing Like and Dislike in English By EFL Students in SMAN 7 Kupang

NGGIA, Stefani Ana (2022) Different Strategies in Expressing Like and Dislike in English By EFL Students in SMAN 7 Kupang. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandira Kupang.

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Abstract

This study is entitled "Different Strategies in Expressing Like and Dislike in English by EFL Students in SMAN 7 Kupang”. It was conducted to find answers to two questions: (1) What are the strategies used by the EFL students of SMAN 7 Kupang in expressing like and dislike? (2) Which of the strategies is mostly used by the students of SMAN 7 Kupang in expressing like and dislikes?The method used in this study was the qualitative method. The subjects of the study were the students of SMAN 7 Kupang. The participants were 15 students who were selected. They were asked to respond to 24 different situations using formal and informal strategies. The instrument used by the writer to compile data was the DCT (Discourse Completion Test)which was given to the students to answer and fill. The researcher copied the data obtained after collecting the DCT, and then the researcher classified and analyzed the data. In this study, the researcher found that there are 2 strategies in Redeker theory, namely formal and informal used by the participants in expressing likes and dislikes based on 24 situations given by the researcher. It shows that formal strategy in expressing dislikes occurred 10 times while informal strategy occurred 124 times and formal strategy in expressing likes occurred 47 times, while informal strategy occurred 86 times. From the data analysis above, it can be concluded that the most dominant formal and informal strategy used by participants in expressing dislike is the informal strategy and the most dominant formal and informal strategy used by participants in expressing likes is the informal strategy.

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