Teacher: Tigor, where is the garbage can? Title plus Last Name TLN
above shows that TLN is used in a wrong way. The teacher named Ina Damayanti wants to be called as Miss Ina in which „Ina‟ is not
her last name. This phenomenon often happens in the English teaching in Indonesia that every students will address their teacher
by using Title plus First Name instead of their last name. This is likely because of the rare Indonesian people who have last name
because of the Indonesian culture and habit. However, English here is learnt as a tool of communication, thus the authenticity of
English should be maintained in order to be able to use English as language. Thus, the existence of TLN in this data is invalid and
inappropriate to be taught to the students.
4.5 Student; Excuse me, I want to see Miss Ina. Officer: Miss Ina the English teacher? OK,
just a minute. TVIIU234a
The next example takes place in a school front desk, a conversation between a student and a front desk officer. In the
conversation, the student asks the officer to meet his teacher, Miss Ina. Here, although the teacher is not present in the conversation,
both student and officer still address the teacher by using TLN. The student uses TLN to address, since the one he wants to meet is his
teacher whom has higher power and social status in the school than him, so he should respect her. Besides, the officer also uses TLN to
address the teacher, because she has lower social status than the teacher in the school system, though there is a possibility that the
officer has the same age as the teacher or maybe older than the teacher. Thus, the function of the use of TLN above is to respect
the teacher, and the social factor that influences is the rank of other or social status.
The concept of TLN used in the above data is not wrong, since it is the rule that people should use TLN in order to respect
others with higher social status or higher power in a certain system. However, the application of TLN concept is wrong. As the
previous data, the use of TLN in this data is also not correct according to the English addressing system. Instead of using last
name, the participants in the conversation use first name in the TLN. This is not appropriate form of TLN to be in textbooks,
because textbooks should provide authentic materials which should be based on English rules used by the native of English.
4.6 Student A: Who are they?
Student B: They‟re Mr Sarjito and Mr Waluya. Student A: What do they do?
Student B: They are security guards, I think.
TVIIU487b The above example is a conversation happening outside the
school between two students who see two men in uniform there. One of them asks the names of the two men as well as what their
job are. Another student answers the questions and he uses TLN in addressing those two men. TLN is used, because the student does
not really know the two men, he only knows their name but not
intimate to them. Moreover, the two men are older than the students, thus the students should respect them by using TLN. In
other words, the function of TLN used by the students is to show respect, while age and degree of intimacy are the social factors
behind the choice. Although the concept of TLN is used correctly by the
addresser, the application of TLN in the conversation is inappropriate. The addresser uses title plus first name instead of
last name which is not inline with the address system of English. The use of inappropriate TLN here is likely caused by the names of
the addressees which only consist given name without a last name. The use of TLN with the same function of showing respect
and social factor of age A but with the wrong application also happens in other several data as follows:
4.7 Student A: Is Mr Gabra playing soccer?
Student B: No, he isn‟t. He‟s playing tennis. FVIIIU14a
4.8 Student A: Who is she?
Student B: She‟s Ms Renata. Student A: What does she do?
Student B: A civil servant, I think.
SFVIIU487a 4.9 Student: Excuse me, m
a‟am. Are you Miss Komala,
the Indonesian teacher? Teacher: Yes, I am.
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