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Factors Affecting Students’ Silence in Intro to Literature class

THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

Rini Indriyani
112007052

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2012

FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ SILENCE IN INLIT CLASS

Factors Affecting Students’ Silence in Intro to Literature class

THESIS

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

Rini Indriyani
112007052

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2012

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This thesis contains no such material as has been submitted for examination in any course or
accepted for the fulfillment of any degree or diploma in any university. To the best of my
knowledge and my belief, this contains no material previously published or written by any
other person except where due reference is made in the text.

Copyright @ 2012. Rini Indriyani and Nugrahenny T. Zacharias, Ph.D.

All rights reserved. No part of this thesis may be reproduced by any means without the
permission of at least one of the copyright owners or the English Department, Faculty of
Language and Literature, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga.

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FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ SILENCE IN INLIT CLASS

FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS’ SILENCE IN INLIT CLASS
Rini Indriyani
Abstract
The study examines factors affecting students’ silence of fifteen English Department
students who joined Intro to Literature class (Inlit) in the academic year 2011/2012. Inlit
course is the basic literature course and a prerequisite of other literature courses such as
prose, poetry and drama. Thus, Inlit course covers materials such as prose, poetry and drama.
The fifteen participants were randomly selected from four different Inlit classes. The data was
gathered from semi-structured interviews. The analysis of the finding uses content-based
(McKay, 2006). The finding revealed three factors affecting students’ silence. The first
emerging factor was socio-psychology factors where participants’ interaction with
interlocutors and smarter peers’ ability affect participants’ silence. The second emerging
factor was cognitive factors. Here, participants’ silence is related to the inability of
participants to analyze the Intro to Literature materials such as prose or poem. The last
emerging factors affecting students’ silence was fluency. It includes participants’ lack of
mastering vocabularies, failure to organize ideas, and a lack of fluency.

Keywords: students’ silence, socio-psychology, cognitive, fluency.

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