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use of TLN indicates inequality power between the speaker and the addressee. It can also be used to show respect toward the addressee. People who have high status usually receive TLN when they are being addressed by people who have lower status. Examples of TLN performed by the characters of the conversations are as follows: 4.4 Teacher: Hello class, I‟m your English teacher. My name‟s is Ina Damayanti but you can call me Miss Ina. TVIIU13b The data above is about a teacher‟s introduction to her new students in her classroom. Here, the teacher mentions her name and then asks her students to call her by using TLN. In this case, the teacher choose to use TLN to address herself is because she wants to show power difference between her and her students that she has higher status as teacher that should be respected by the students. In short, TLN here has a function to show power difference and social status becomes the factor influencing the teacher in choosing it. The use of TLN is this case is appropriate, that the teachers wants to maintain the respect coming from the students to the teacher. However, the TLN used here is an inappropriate form of TLN that is used by the native of English. The English address system clearly states that TLN is a pattern that consists of Title and Last Name or Family Name of a person, for example for a person named James Brown he will be called as Mr. Brown. The data above shows that TLN is used in a wrong way. The teacher named Ina Damayanti wants to be called as Miss Ina in which „Ina‟ is not her last name. This phenomenon often happens in the English teaching in Indonesia that every students will address their teacher by using Title plus First Name instead of their last name. This is likely because of the rare Indonesian people who have last name because of the Indonesian culture and habit. However, English here is learnt as a tool of communication, thus the authenticity of English should be maintained in order to be able to use English as language. Thus, the existence of TLN in this data is invalid and inappropriate to be taught to the students. 4.5 Student; Excuse me, I want to see Miss Ina. Officer: Miss Ina the English teacher? OK, just a minute. TVIIU234a The next example takes place in a school front desk, a conversation between a student and a front desk officer. In the conversation, the student asks the officer to meet his teacher, Miss Ina. Here, although the teacher is not present in the conversation, both student and officer still address the teacher by using TLN. The student uses TLN to address, since the one he wants to meet is his teacher whom has higher power and social status in the school than him, so he should respect her. Besides, the officer also uses TLN to address the teacher, because she has lower social status than the teacher in the school system, though there is a possibility that the