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A STUDY OF EXPRESSIVE GRATITUDE OF THANKING
STRATEGY AS USED BY EFL LEARNERS
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of The Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

AGUSTIN SHINTA WIDYOWATI
112010058

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

A STUDY OF EXPRESSIVE GRATITUDE OF THANKING
STRATEGY AS USED BY EFL LEARNERS
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of The Requirements for the Degree of

Sarjana Pendidikan

AGUSTIN SHINTA WIDYOWATI
112010058

ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
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 TABLES ..………………………………………………………………….. vi
ABSTRACT ………………………………………………………………………........ 1
INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………….…...….. 1
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ……………………………………………...…… 4
THE STUDY…………………………………………………………………..………. 10
Context of Study ………………………………………………………….…………... 10
Participants …………………………………………………………………………… 10
Data Collection ……………………………………………………………………….. 11
Data Instrument ……………………………………………........................................ 11
Research Procedure …..………………………………………………………..…….. 12
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION….…....…………………………………….….…… 12
CONCLUSION ……………………………………………………………………….. 18

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ……………………………………………………….…... 20
REFERENCES …………………………………………………………………..……. 21
APPENDIX ………………………………………………………………………......... 22

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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1. ………………………………………………………………………………. 8
Table 2. ……………………………………………………………………………... 12
Table 3. ……………………………………………………………………………... 13
Table 4. ……………………………………………………………………………... 16
Table 5. ……………………………………………………………………………... 17

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A Study of Expressive Gratitude of Thanking Strategy
as Used by EFL Learners
Agustin Shinta
Abstract
This paper attempts to investigate thanking strategies in expressive gratitude

used by English Department students as EFL learners. This paper also analyze
whether there are any possibilities of difference strategies in expressing gratitude
among non-native speaker. This study is important since thanking strategies have
a tendency to build relation among interlocutors, Hinkel (1994). The participants
in this study were 70 non-native speakers. They were given Discourse Completion
Test (DCT) in an attempt to elicit thanking strategies for the data. The data were
analyzed, coded and discussed based on the taxonomy of thanking strategies
expression gratitude by Cheng (2010). The results show that simple thanking
strategies were used by English Department students to express gratitude. Other
strategies of thanking strategies expression gratitude were also found in this study.
Keywords: expression gratitude, thanking strategy in express gratitude