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AN INVESTIGATION OF INDONESIAN EFL LEARNERS’
APPLICATION OF STRATEGIES IN DISAGREEING USING
ENGLISH

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

Dewi Kusumawati Sofyan
112010085

ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
2014

AN INVESTIGATION OF INDONESIAN EFL LEARNERS’
APPLICATION OF STRATEGIES IN DISAGREEING USING
ENGLISH

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

Dewi Kusumawati Sofyan
112010085

ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
2014

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TABLE OF CONTENT

INSIDE COVER PAGE ……………………………………………………………… i
APPROVAL PAGE ……………………………………………………..…………... ii
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT ……………………………………………..………... iii
PUBLICATION AGREEMENT DECLARATION ………………………...……… iv
TABLE OF CONTENT ………………………………………………………..….… v
LIST OF FIGURES ………………………………………………………………… vi
ABSTRACT ………………………………………………………………………..... 1
INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………….…...… 1
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ……………………………………………...…… 4
THE STUDY …………………………………………………………………..…..… 6
Context of Study …………………………………………………….……….… 6
Participants …………………………………………………………………..… 7
Method of Research …………………………………………………………… 7
Instrument and Data Collection ……………………………………………..... 8
Data Analysis ………………………………………………………………… 11
FINDINGS ………………………...…....…………………………………….….… 11
DISCUSSION ……………………………………………………………………… 21

CONCLUSION …………………………………………………………………….. 22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ……………………………………………………….… 24
REFERENCES …………………………………………………………………..… 25
APPENDIX ………………………………………………………………………... 27

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1. Disagreement Strategies Used in Condition 1 …………………………… 13
Figure 2. Disagreement Strategies Used in Condition 2 …………………………… 15
Figure 3. Disagreement Strategies Used in Condition 3 …………………………… 16
Figure 4. Disagreement Strategies Used in Condition 4 …………………………… 18
Figure 5. Disagreement Strategies Used in Condition 5 …………………………… 20

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AN INVESTIGATION OF INDONESIAN EFL LEARNERS’
APPLICATION OF STRATEGIES IN DISAGREEING USING
ENGLISH

Dewi Kusumawati Sofyan

Abstract
The current study aims at investigating Indonesian EFL learners‟ strategies in
expressing disagreement using English. In attempt to achieve the goal, 100 English
Department students of Satya Wacana Christian University were invited to participate
in this study. The participants were given a Discourse Completion Test (DCT)
modified from studies by Takahashi and Beebe (1993) and Guodong and Jing (2005).
The data obtained through this test were analyzed based on taxonomy of disagreement
strategies by Muntigl (1995). The data was described in quantitatively. This study is
important because disagreement is perceived as a face-threatening act (FTA). The
findings revealed the tendency of IEFL learners to mitigate FTA by using
counterclaim as the most employed disagreement strategy by Indonesian EFL (IEFL)
learners. Based on the findings of this study, a course about pragmatic understanding
is suggested to offer in English Department in attempt to create more awareness of the
students in speech acts realization, especially disagreement. Hopefully the findings of
this study would provide additional information about strategies employed by IEFL
learners in expressing disagreement.
Key words: Disagreement, Strategies in Disagreeing.