Objectives of the Study Benefits of the Study Organization of the Study

1.4 Objectives of the Study

The objectives of the study is to find out the communication strategies used by the participants in constructing their dialogues in order to convey the messages, ideas, opinions, or in making conversations. To make the statement of the problems more specific, I would like to analyze: 1 The radio announcers and their participants’ message abandonment, in constructing their dialogues. 2 The radio announcers and their participants’ topic avoidance, in constructing their dialogues. 3 The radio announcers and their participants’ appeal to the authority in constructing their dialogues. 4 The radio announcers and their participants’ changing code in constructing their dialogues. 5 The radio announcers and their participants’ language switch in constructing their dialogues.

1.5 Benefits of the Study

In conducting this study, hopefully, the results will be useful for the followings : 1 English speakers of Indonesia: this research will be useful for them, in order to realize their lack of making conversation, so that they are supported to be more. 2 English learners: for the English learners, to know some strategies in making conversation in order to convey their message. This study will be the support for them to study English more, and to encourage themselves, not to afraid to make mistakes if they make a conversation. 3 Radio announcers especially the Indonesian announcer of English programs: this research will be very useful for them to know more about the participants’ condition, their lack in making conversation in English, and what kinds of strategies used by the participants in conveying their messages.

1.6 Organization of the Study

This thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 talks about introduction which discuss about background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, statements of the problems, objectives of the study, significance of the study, method of investigation and outline of the thesis. Chapter II presents review of related literatures which discuss about English language learning program in the radio, conversation, communicative competence, communication strategies, and theoretical framework of the study. Chapter III deals with method of investigation. This chapter consists of assumption, objects, instruments for collecting the data, procedures for collecting the data, classification data, data analysis. Furthermore chapter IV describes the results of the study and the explanation of the data; finally chapter takes the points of conclusion and suggestion. Conclusion is made based on the study. 10

CHAPTER II REVIEW TO THE RELATED LITERATURE