The use of informal language in academic writing by the students of English Teacher Education Department at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

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Sholihah, Zaidatus (2018) The use of informal language in academic writing by the students of English Teacher Education Department at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Academic writing is one of writing which written for academic purposes. This kind of writing has standard rule where the language used in academic writing should be formal. Recently, informal language is frequently used by the writers in academic writing. This leads the researcher to do further research about informal language in English Teacher Education Department. This study wants to know if students of English Teacher Education Department at UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya use informal language in their thesis proposal. The researcher focuses on three research questions; 1) What are the elements of informality used in academic writing? 2) what are the element of informality which are the most frequently occurred? 3) how is the teachers’ response on informal language used in academic writing?. To answer those research questions, the researcher used qualitative method by analyzing document and interviewing the teachers. The first data is taken from the students’ thesis proposal in academic writing in three classes. Meanwhile, the second data is gained from interviewing the teachers who taught in three classes which become the sample of this research. Those three research questions have been found. 1) The result of the first research question shows that nine elements of informality found in students’ theses proposal. They are unattended anaphoric pronouns, first person pronoun, construction, initial conjunctions and conjunctive adverb, sentence fragment, listing expression, direct question, adverb in initial or final position, and second person pronoun. 2) The result of the second research question shows that the elements which are frequently occurred are initial conjunctions and conjunctive, first person pronoun and unattended anaphoric pronoun. 3) The result of the third research question shows that teachers respond to all elements of informality which are used by the students except for adverb in initial or final position. However, the eight elements used by the students are not corrected by all the teachers. The finding also shows that all the teachers respond to elements of informality selectively. Most of the response given to each elements of informality is indirect. The teachers most like to tell the students that error is found but they do not give the correct form to the students. The teachers wants the students to look for the error by themselves.