Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: A Study of Expressive Gratitude of Thanking Strategy as Used by Efl Learners

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 nonnative 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