A STUDY ON WRITTEN ENGLISH COLLOQUIAL WORDS USED
BY DIGITAL NATIVE STUDENTS IN TWEETING
THESIS
ZIANA WALIDAH
08360240
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
A STUDY ON WRITTEN ENGLISH COLLOQUIAL WORDS
USED BY DIGITAL NATIVE STUDENTS IN TWEETING
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to fulfill one of the requirements to
achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
BY:
ZIANA WALIDAH (08360240)
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to
do something you have never done.
Success is a journey, not a destination
Dedication:
I dedicate this thesis to:
My beloved father and mother,
My sisters,
My lovely,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
Alhamdulillahi rabbil ‘alamin, the researcher expresses her highest gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala for blessing, love, opportunity, health, and mercy to complete this thesis.
Shalawat is also sent to Prophet Muhammad shallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam who had delivered the truth to human beings in general and Muslim in particular. In arranging this thesis, a lot of people have provided motivation, advice, support, and even remark that had helped the researcher. In this valuable chance, the researcher aims to express her gratitude and appreciation to all of them.
1. Dian Inayati, M. Ed as the first advisor who has helped, given valuable advice, motivation, experience, encouragement helped the researcher all the times of study and analysis of this whole thesis.
2. Drs. Soeparto M. Pd as the second advisor who has helped her patiently finishes this thesis by giving suggestion, guidance, and correction since the preliminary of manuscript until the completion of this thesis.
is beyond any words. For my dearest sisters are Ifdah and Safira who always give constant encouragement and tireless motivation.
4. Thank you for my lovely who always support and give me good advice. 5. All friends from I class, namely Nafis, Ika yuniasrinda, Ulfa, Mbak Maya,
Tika, Yopi, Gagoek, Lisa, Ratih, Iis, Iin, Zen.
6. My housemates, there are Amee, Penyok, Nje, Atmut, and Nuril for your sacrifice and motivation. Without all of you the researcher would never have the power to finish this thesis, and thank you so much for coloring my life, cheerful days, beautiful togetherness and also unforgettable moment for all of my life.
Finally, may Allah always blesses us. Aamiin
Ziana walidah TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title ... i
Approval ... ii
Legalization ... iii
Motto and Dedication ... iv
Abstract ... v
Acknowledgements ... vi
Table of Contents ... vii
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study ... 1
1.2 Statement of Problem ... 6
1.3 Purpose of the Study ... 6
1.4 Scope and Limitation ... 6
1.5 Significance of Study ... 7
1.6 Definition of Key Term ... 7
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Digital Native ... 9
2.1.1 Characteristics of Digital Native ... 11
2.1.3 Non- digital native vs digital native student ... 12
2.3.1.1 Literary Colloquial word ... 21
2.3.1.2 Familiar Colloquial word ... 22
2.3.2 Characteristics of Colloquial ... 23
2.3.3 The Use of Colloquial Words in Particular Context... 24
4.2 Discussion ... 46
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion ... 49 5.2 Suggestion ... 51 REFERENCES
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents background of the study, statement of the problem, purpose of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitation, and definition of key term.
1.1Background of the Study
In global area, the internet is a useful tool for communicating with other people around the world. By using the Internet, people may get information easier and faster. Besides, people may send messages to several friends, read some news and advertisement with the aid of the Internet. Dealing with communication, the Internet has provided a tool for communication which connects people, that is a social networking tool.
According to Lenny (2010), social network is a social structure made up of individuals or organizations, it is called „nodes‟, which are connected by one or more specific types of independency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, relationship of beliefs, and knowledge or prestige. Then, Myfield (2008: 6) adds social networking tool is sites allowing people to build personal web and connecting with friends to share content and communication. Based on above theories, it can be concluded that social network tool can be used to relate people in scope of cyber space. Lately, there have been some popular social networking tools, for example, Yahoo Messenger, facebook, twitter.
networking tools that can be used to connect people, share information, and build a new relation within the system.
People usually use twitter to find new friends and create networks around the world. By using twitter, people are easier to communicate and interact with friends or even with people who they have never known before. They may join some groups of twitter and introduce a topic to discuss. Some of them might get addicted while others might not. People enjoy joining twitter and spend almost all of their time for chatting and tweeting.
According to Yulius (2009), there are several superiorities of twitter. First, it can be used to search new information or news easily because it is helped with trending topic. Secondly, this form is simple, only (140 characters to every shout out), it makes this web easily to load in mobile browser or desktop browser. Thirdly, using Hastag, it means that people can make a self conversation in the several people at once. Fourthly, system following and follower, it means that following is twitter user follow people are aimed. Besides, follower is twitter user are followed by other people.
According to Wolfe (2011), the number of the twitter users per month has reached 82% of adult and teenagers since the beginning of 2011, and half of the twitter users log in every day. Moreover, Castolo (2011) states that 100 million people use twitter everyday, even though 40% of twitter account owners have not logged into their accounts in the past 30 days.
Semiocast research (2012) reports that in 2012, Indonesia is in the world‟s fifth position
with 19.5 million of the number of the twitter users. According to Dunkles (2006), the most dominant twitter user is students. Then, Pontoh (2012), the statistical of the students that use twitter is not constant, but they increase two million everyday. Based on the above statistics, it can be concluded that Indonesia is a country with the biggest number of the twitter users in Indonesia, while the most dominant twitter user is students.
Based on a previous study done by Ika (2011), the reasons of students using twitter are: 1). Intertwine of communication and tighten of relation with each other. People can use mention (@). It means that students can communicate with a person who is aimed. 2). Losing saturation. It is one reason for the students who use twitter, because they consider that twitter becomes a friend, when they have saturation in their activities. Besides, they consider that twitter as a place to express their emotion by arranging sentences which is called tweeting, 3). Getting information, students consider that twitter gives some information and new insight. They admit that they need this information to increase their reference toward the kind of knowledge, 4). Self existence, motif of existence appears in the students, because they always want to be appreciated and be existed by people around them. They should join twitter in order to follow development in nowadays.
Prensky (2001), digital native is all “native speaker” of the digital language of computers, video games, and the Internet. A digital native is determined by age, experience, and breadth of use. (Helper, and Rebecca, 2009). Thus, people are categorized as a digital native, when they always grew up with new technology.
In written communication especially, people can use varieties of languages. They can use varieties of language, for example, smiley or emoticons to show their expression, and colloquial words to make their short sentences more simple and interesting.
Colloquial words are some informal and short speech which are different from the standard language for the purpose to make it simple, such as “have to” to be “have 2”.
According to Trask (1999), colloquial is ordinary, relaxed, informal speech such as using contractions, using connection words and phrase, using abbreviated utterances, using many words and expressions people would avoid in formal context, and using swear words freely.
There are several previous studies about the use of colloquial words in social networking tools. One of them is conducted by Annisa (2007) who analyzed the colloquial language used by members of Friendster who were digital native in writing testimonials on the Internet. There were 61 colloquial words and nine technical terms which could be divided into two. The first was technical terms which support the theory such as clipping, blending, acronym, and hypocorism. The second was a technical term which does not support the theory such as word, number and letter as word, reducing letter, and changing spelling.
colloquial words based on the theory of word formation process and 47 colloquial words based on the theory of colloquial words.
This research aims to investigate the written English colloquial words used by digital native students in tweeting. The previous studies were focusing on the colloquial words used in facebook and Friendster. This study takes fifteen digital natives who are only from English department at University Muhammadiyah of Malang who frequently compose status in twitter using colloquial words.
Moreover, this study choses twitter because Indonesia is five position of twitter users in the world, and lately, it is a popular social networking tool used by people, especially digital native students. Also, twitter is called as microblogging that has 140 characters in every status composition so that it can share and receive information easier. Thus, it is assumed that the digital natives might also use colloquial words to limit these characters in their status updates. So, this study wants to know about what colloquial words used by digital natives in their twitter status updates. Thus, this study is aimed at knowing the types and varieties of English colloquial words used by digital natives in twitter.
1.2Statement of the Problem
Based on the background of the study above, the statements of the problem are elaborated as follows:
1. What are the English colloquial words used by digital natives in tweeting?
2. What are the types of English colloquial words used by the digital natives in tweeting?
The purposes of the studies are related to the problems of the study. The purposes of the study are as follows:
1. To analyze English colloquial words used by digital natives in tweeting.
2. To find the types of English colloquial words used by the digital natives in who usually compose status in the twitter.
1.5Significant of the Study
This study is expected to motivate students in learning English. Besides, it is aimed to analyze English colloquial words used by digital native in twitter. The result of the research is expected to be one of valuable information for the digital natives about English colloquial words. Furthermore, it gives the digital natives to increase knowledge about varieties of language, especially English colloquial words.
1.6Definition of Key Term
To avoid any misunderstanding about the terms that are used in this study, it is necessary to define several key terms as follows:
young, they have been „submerged‟ in it for the longest period of time. Breadth of use, it means that those for whom the Internet is integrated into almost every aspect of their everyday lives independent of their age or experience. (Helsper and Rebecca, 2009)
2. Colloquial is ordinary, relaxed, informal speech such as using contractions, using connecting words and phrase, using abbreviated utterances, using many words and expressions that would be avoided in formal context, and may be using swear words with freedom. (Trask, 1999)
3. Twitter is an online platform which allows users to construct a public or semi public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connection and those made by others within the system. (Beyond, and Ellison, 2007)
