HILMI SALAM (14121330386): ‘‘The Analysis of Information
Technology Register in Some Selected Journals: A Discourse Perspective’’.
This thesis is submitted to the English Study Program of Tarbiyah Faculty.
The study ESP (English for Specific Purpose) is enlarged through
this paper that analyzes English for Specific Purposes in area of information
technology. Related to English Department, ESP is learned as well by
learners as subject matter in language learning. Register is part of linguistic
feature in ESP which close to vocabulary in English language but specifically
expanded through situational context by register (field, tenor, and mode).
There are two aims of research such as (1) to describe how discourse
analysis clarifies IT registers in selected journal (2) to describe how these
specific IT registers in journals affect the readers in comprehending text.
Through discourse analysis this paper is completed by data analysis which
clarifies what real author purpose and what actually written on journals to
measure how learners comprehension. The method of the research is
descriptive qualitative research. Descriptive Qualitative methods offer the
opportunity for participants to understand the aims of educational journal then
describe how really journal affects their comprehension.
From the documentation study, researcher found the result that
discourse analysis clarifies IT register in some selected journals such as (1)
Through discourse analysis researcher attempted to link writer purpose in
using several register toward readers in brief and clear explanation into three
components of field, tenor and mode. (2) Related to the questionnaire
experiments of this documentation study, these specific IT registers in
journals affect the readers in comprehending text through the way of their
reading style, mostly EFL learners don‘t want to deeply understand the
meaning of some register that real author wants to expose, so it causes
ambiguity between writer and readers about the true meaning of each terms.
Key word: English for Specific Purposes, Register, Discourse, Comprehension
