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attention of the intended interactant. All the children in the study produced the attending speech function.
1 O: attending 16
Satria i Miss?
R: responding: 17 Teacher
i Yes?
engage
The excerpt 1 gives an example of attending speech function produced by the student; it was produced by Satria. Satria called the teacher by saying Miss
to get the teacher’s attention. This utterance is therefore included into attending speech function.
Almost all of the attending speech functions produced by the students in the study were directed to the teacher by calling the teacher’s name Miss or Miss
Melani. The excerpt 2 below is another attending speech function realized by calling a complete name of the teacher.
2 O: attending
222 Satria
i Miss Melani,
R: responding 223 Teacher
i Yes? engage
C: appending: 224 Satria
i Miss, today I follow Ken-ken’s car
ii because today Ken-ken has lesson in my house.
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A different attending speech function was produced by Ken-ken. He produced the attending speech function not by calling the teacher’s name, but by
giving a kind of salutation, and it was said in Bahasa Indonesia.
3 O: I: command 295c Teacher vii Put it up.
viii and change a little bit. ix Slowly.
O: attending 296
Ken-ken i Permisi
R: responding: 297 Teacher
iWow…, OK, just put it downstairs developing:
enhance
The word,
permisi, in the excerpt 3 above was uttered by Ken-ken to gain the teacher’s attention; though he said it in Bahasa Indonesia. At that time
the teacher was busy instructing the class to follow her singing the nursery rhyme while some of the children wandered around the class taking their paper. Ken-ken,
then, tried to get the teacher’s attention by saying the word. Besides getting teacher’s attention, one of the students, Bella, produced
attending speech function to get her friend’s interest. She did that to help the teacher get the her friend’s attention. The teacher had called him, but it seemed no
response, so Bella called his friend’s name to help the teacher.
4 O: attending 278
Teacher i Ken-ken.
O: attending 279
Bela i Ken
R: responding 280 Teacher
