Types of Grammatical Errors in the Essays Written by Fourth-semester Students of English Department, Petra Christian University

This study deals with errors which include tenses (verb forms), number agreement, and active-passive voice, word order, and word formation on students' essays.The purpose of this study is to find out the types of errors committed by the students in Written 4 class based on five categories which are addition, omission, misformation, misordering and blends. The writer found that the most frequent error is misformation, especially the misformation of verbs and nouns. In conclusion, the students committed misformation, misordering, addition, omission, and blends errors; and misformation is the most commonly committed error which is found in their essays

Kinship Terms Used by Strangers Towards Two Offsprings of Inter-ethnic Married Couples in Surabaya

This research investigates the kinship terms produced by strangers towards two young offsprings of inter-ethnic married couples who were used as enticements to generate the production along with the social factors. The data taken from both natural conversations and informal conversational interviews were analyzed using the theories of address Indonesian in Indonesian (John & Stokes, 1977), Javanese (Kuntjara, 2001), Dutch (Matres & Sekel, 2007), and those produced by Chinese-Indonesian (Kuntjara, 2009) and social factors proposed by Holmes (1992) and Wardhaugh (2006). The findings resulted in the mixture of kinship terms from Indonesian, Javanese, Chinese, Dutch, and zero address term which were addressed by strangers to M and F. In addition, addressors mostly considered their own aspects, ethnicity, setting, transactional status and function, and prior knowledge and personal preference as the decisive factors when choosing kinship terms. While the addressee's aspects, physical features and visible appearance, were the minor factors they took into account

A Semiotic Analysis on the Perceived Meanings of Coca Cola “Anthem” Video Commercial

This study observes the perceived meanings produced by young adult (18 to 30 years old) and older (50 to 65 years old) respondents as respondents from different age group can produce different perceived meanings from each other. The writer's finding is that in perceiving, young adult respondents tend to emphasize on Coca Cola's emotional roles. On the other hand, the older respondents emphasize on Coca Cola's physical roles

Impoliteness Strategies Used on Online Comments in an Indonesian Football Website

This research investigates linguistic impoliteness used in online football comments through the examination of impoliteness strategies proposed by Jonathan Culpeper. It examines how impoliteness strategies are used on online comments and what strategy mostly used by Indonesian participants in Okezone, an Indonesian football website. The research uses descriptive qualitative method supported by quantitative data. First, the writer found that Indonesian participants mostly used positive impoliteness strategy to express their negative attitude on giving comments. Second, there are four out of five impoliteness strategies used by Indonesian participants. Withhold politeness strategy is excluded

Persuasive Strategies Used by Agung Sedayu Group in the Infomercial, Metro TV

This study is conducted to find out the types of persuasive strategies which were used in Agung Sedayu Group's infomercial. It is aimed to seek the types of persuasive strategies used by the hosts and the representative team of Agung Sedayu Group in the infomercial. The writer uses the theories of persuasive strategies by Beebe (2012). The types of persuasive strategies theories are enhancing your credibility, using logic and evidence, and using emotion to persuade. In addition, the writer uses theory of social factor by Holmes (2001) as the supporting theory. This research uses qualitative supported by quantitative methods to reveal which strategy that mostly used by the participants. In the analysis, the writer found out that the most dominant persuasive strategy used by the hosts is using emotion to persuade 161 (31.8%). Moreover, the most dominant persuasive strategy used by the representative team is enhancing your credibility 113 (22.3%)

Speech Styles Used by Young Female and Male Teachers in Teaching English to Their Older Students

This study discussed about the speech styles used by a young female and a young male teacher in teaching English to their older students, the tendencies of using the features of each speech styles, and the use of opposite gendered speech styles. Through the classroom observation, the findings showed that the young female teacher applied six features of female speech styles and five features of male speech styles while the findings of theyoung male teacher showed that he only applied five features of male speech styles and applied six features of female speech styles.From the findings, it could be concluded that the most dominant speech styles used by the young female teacher is ‘Female Speech Style' and the most dominant feature is ‘Co-operative'. And, the most dominant speech styles used by the young male teacher is ‘Male Speech Style' and the most dominant feature is ‘Co-operative' feature of female speech styl

Apology Strategies Used by Airline Officers in Handling Problems with Passengers

In this research, I discuss about types of apology strategies used by Lion Group officers in handling problems with passengers. It was triggered by the fact that this Airline Company still manages to have high number of passengers though many of its passengers have been disappointed because of the service given. Here, I used Apology Strategies theory proposed by Eva Ogierman (2009) which divided Apology Strategies into three main categories and each category has its own types. To get the data, I conducted an observation within two weeks in Pattimura Airport, Ambon. From this study I found out that there is a difference in the use of types of apology strategies when the officers had to deal with both calm and emotional passengers. The officers used types of IFIDs category more frequently in dealing with emotional passengers