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participants were 24 seventh semester students of ELESP of Sanata Dharma University. They were given 20 minutes to fill in the questionnaires.
E. Data Analysis Technique
The questionnaire used in this research was administered using discourse completion test DCT. The researcher referred to the theory of discourse
completion test by Blum-Kulka 1982 when designing the questionnaire. The DCT itself was in the form of questionnaire containing four brief scenarios to
elicit a particular speech act. In this research, the researcher designed four di
fferent scenarios in the questionnaire which aimed to know the speaker‟s responses to the addressee who had higher social power and status than the
speaker did. The speaker here was the student and the addressee was the lecturer. The four scenarios presented in the questionnaire can be seen as follows.
Scenario 1 You want to have consultation with your lecturer advisor
related to your thesisproposal seminar. But, you cannot meet himher in person to arrange the schedule. So, you send the text
message to himher personally to ask for permission to have consultation. What do you write in your message?
Scenario 2 You are doing your final project for a course. The lecturer
allows you to send the draft of your final project to hisher email so that heshe can check it. You are planning to send
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your draft as an attachment to your lecturer via email. Write down the introductory message of your email.
Scenario 3 You are on your way to finish your final project for a course.
You have to present your project to the whole class as the final test. But, before presenting your project, the lecturer asks you
to send himher your power point slides. You have sent the power point slides right before the deadline. But, when you
check your work again, you find some mistakes on it and want to revise it. So, you decide to resend the email with the revised
slides. What do you write on your email? Scenario 4
You will have consultation on your thesisproposal seminar with your advisor on a specific day. You have arranged the
schedule together with your lecturer and you have prepared yourself to have the consultation. But, on the D-day, you get a
trouble getting sick or having an accident that makes you unable to come to your consultation. You want to inform your
lecturer about your condition and reschedule the consultation by sending himher text message. Write down your message.
The scenarios were designed based on the natural situations which might happen in academic field, particularly in campus. The scenarios involved the
students as the speakers and also the lecturers as the addressees. In order to answer the first research problem, the researcher classified the types of acts which
were shown by the participants when they responded to the scenarios on the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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questionnaire. The acts here belonged to illocutionary acts which could be categorized into five, namely assertive, directive, commissive, expressive and
declaration. The theory of illocutionary acts and its categories was based on Searle‟s theory 1969. The researcher categorized the students‟ responses for
each of the scenarios based on those categories in table 3.1. Based on the categorization, the researcher would conclude the types of illocutionary acts seen
in students‟ written messages when they responded to the case in the scenarios.
Table 3.1: The Types of Illocutionary Acts on Students’ Written Messages based on the Scenarios
Students Scenarios
Type of Illocutionary Acts
Assertive Directive Commissive Expressive Declaration
Student 1 S1
S2 S3
S4 Student 2
S1 S2
S3 S4
Then, the researcher focused more on participants ‟ politeness when they
showed their acts to the lecturers. The data would be categorized using table 3.2. The researcher categorized the students‟ responses into four strategies of
politeness based on the theory from Brown and Levinson 1987. Based on the categorization, the researcher could conclude the politeness strategies which were
