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2. Functional communication strategy which consists of message
abandonment, topic avoidance, changing code, language switch, and appeal to the authority.
In doing this study, the writer chooses to observe only the functional communication strategy. In order to make the problem more specific, the
research question is as follows: “What functional communication strategies are used by English Department
students of UNNES in the academic year of 20082009 in speaking class? “
1.4 Objectives of the Study
Relating to the problems that are elaborated above, the purpose of this study is to describe functional communication strategies that are used by
English Department students of UNNES in making conversation in speaking class.
1.5 Significance of the Study
In conducting this study, I believe that the analysis of communication strategies among English students will be beneficial to other people.
The study is expected to be beneficial to: a
English language learning: this study will give more view about communication strategies among English students.
b Indonesian English students: this study will give contribution
to English students of Indonesia, to make them understand
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better what communication strategies are used by English students.
c English Department students of UNNES: this study will give more view and description about how they construct
communication strategies whenever they face some difficulties in making conversation in speaking class.
1.6 Outline of the Research Report
In order that this report is easy to understand, the writer organizes it within 5 chapters as follows: the first chapter is introduction, which consists of
background of the study, reasons for choosing the topic, statements of the problems, objectives of the study, significances of the study, and outline of the
research report. The second chapter is review of related literature, which presents conversation, definition of conversation, kinds of conversation,
communicative competence, definition of communicative competence, components of communicative competence, communication strategies, and
definition of communication strategies, categories of communication strategies, English as a foreign language in Indonesia, and the role of speaking
class for English department’s students. The third chapter is method of investigation that presents assumption, object of the study, role of researcher,
research instrument, procedure of collecting the data, and the procedure of analyzing the data. The fourth chapter is the analysis of the data which deals
with the data analysis, statistical analysis of the data, and general finding.
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Finally, this final project ends with conclusions and suggestions in chapter five.
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Conversation
