An Analysis of Discourse Markers Used By Efl Students Based on Gender (A Case Study on English Seminar Presentation at Iain Curup)

Ramadani, Rully Putri and Hidayah, Jumatul and Edy, Sarwo (2019) An Analysis of Discourse Markers Used By Efl Students Based on Gender (A Case Study on English Seminar Presentation at Iain Curup). Sarjana thesis, IAIN Curup.

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This research was about An Analysis of Discourse Markers Used by EFL Students Based on Gender (A Case Study on English Seminar Presentation at IAIN Curup). This research was designed as a descriptive research with qualitative way, which focused on the types of discourse markers used by the students in English seminar and the occurrence discourse markers used their English seminar presentations. The subject of this research was the was students that have followed English Seminar when they were in the seventh semester of TBI IAIN Curup in academic years 2017-2018. The purposes of this research were to find the types of discourse markers used by the students in English seminar and the occurrence discourse markers used their English seminar presentations. The techniques of collecting the data were observation and interview. The results of this research; (1) There are five types of discourse markers that used in English Seminar presentation by the English students of seventh semester. They are markers of information management, Markers of Response, Markers of Connective, Markers of Cause and Result, and Markers of Temporal Adverb; (2) The discourse markers occurred in the students’ presentations serve important purpose in conversation since they are used to indicate whether one is ready to speak or want to keep speaking and to show how one responds to what someone has just said. Thus, if we succeed in learning to recognize discourse markers, we will be able to guess more accurately, what another person is trying to say. In addition, in terms of occurrence, for the discourse markers functioning as fillers they are occupied in the middle of the sentences. While for those which do not function as fillers they commonly occupy in the beginning of the sentences.

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