U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 3, No 6 (2014): U-JET

THE LANGUAGE IN INTERACTIONAL SPEAKING AND CONVERSATIONAL WRITING

Gilang Adittama (Unknown)
Muhammad Sukirlan (Unknown)
Ari Nurweni (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
02 Jul 2014

Abstract

Terdapat tempat di mana bahasa lisan dan tulis bisa menyatu. Penelitian ini menginvestigasi faktor-faktor yang membuat menulis terlihat dan terasa seperti berbicara. Sebuah database berisi 200 ujaran dari dua subyek (100 ujaran per subyek) pada percakapan tertulis dan percakapan interaksional (50 ujaran per setting) selama 6 bulan digunakan. Penemuan utama dalam penelitian ini adalah kata-kata yang digunakan pada kedua setting berada pada tahap keumuman yang sama berdasarkan tiga criteria Oxford 3000TM. Ujaran-ujaran tersebut juga sama tingkat kerumitannya. Satu-satunya perbedaan kecil adalah bagaimana ujaran tersebut dituturkan melalui berbagai tindak tutur. Temuan pendukungnya adalah bahwa kedua subyek tidak merasakan perbedaan apapun selama keterlibatan mereka pada kedua setting. Satu subyek tidak membuat persiapan apapun, dan yang satu lagi menyatakan bahwa dia spontan menggunakan kata-kata yang pernah ditulis atau baca dan diingatnya.There are some places for writing, speaking, written language, and spoken language to exist together. This research investigates some factors that make writing looks and feels like speaking. A database of 200 utterances taken from two subjects (100 utterances from each) in conversational writing (50 utterances per subject) and interactional speaking (50 utterances per subject) during the 6 months of data elicitation period is used. The major finding in this research is that the words found in conversational writing and interactional speaking are of similar level of commonness based on the three criteria of The Oxford 3000TM. The utterances are also similar in terms of complexity. The only slight difference is the way they were uttered through variety of speech acts.  One minor finding is that the subjects feel no difference during their involvement in both settings. One subject admits to have made no planning, the other one says that he directly uses the words he has ever used when writing or reading and remembered.  Keywords : conversational writing, interactional speaking, language

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...