THE PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT LECTURERS
AS DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS TOWARD LANGUAGE OF
DIGITAL NATIVE STATUS UPDATES ON FACEBOOK AT
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
THESIS
By:
IRMA RUSTANTIYA
09360021
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
THE PERCEPTION OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT LECTURERS
AS DIGITAL IMMIGRANTS TOWARD LANGUAGE OF
DIGITAL NATIVE STATUS UPDATES ON FACEBOOK AT
UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
THESIS
This Thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to Achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
IRMA RUSTANTIYA NIM. 09360021
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
This thesis written by Irma Rustantiya was approved on October 30, 2013.
By:
Advisor II Advisor I
This Thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher
Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
on October 30, 2013
Approved by,
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. Poncojari Wahyono, M.kes
Examiners: Signatures:
1. Dr. Sudiran, M.Hum 1. ……….
2. Riski Lestiono, M.A 2. ……….
3. Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd 3. ……….
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
“Adalah baik menjadi seorang yang penting,
tetapi adalah penting menjadi seorang yang
baik”
( Andri D. Setyabudi)
“God never sleep,
just do your best and pray”
“ Bukan dimana atau siapa Anda saat ini, tetapi
ingin dimana atau menjadi siapa Anda nanti”
In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful
This thesis is dedicated to:
My beloved parent,
My mom and dad, they are my everything. They are the light of my life that have guided and treated me to be the way I am now. Their love always support me to face my life. How lucky I am have both of them. Nothing can replace what
they had gave and done for me.
My sister and brother,
Nurul and Faris who always be my motivation to face my life. Both of you give spirit in my life.
My friends,
Inof (noph2), Febri (pebronk), Hardi (be2k), Tri Yuli (kunyit), Lingga (limbok), Dian (tante), Ririn (kiwil), and all of class A1 kawok English Dept 2009 Thanks for love, spirit, laughter, encouragement, cares and happiness that we
share. Thanks for beautify my steps. All of you guys are amazing.
My new family, Soeparto’s thesis guidience,
Ramli, Ardi, Dwi, Dyah, Bintang, Ocha, and Mualifah, thanks for helping me finish my thesis. Thanks for knowledge that we share.
MSI B21 family,
Reny (nda), Nadia (ochang), Alif (lipah), April (njepril), and Isla
Thanks for beautify my days. Thanks for give me happiness and meaningful days in my life. Our story will always in my mind, hope our silahturahmi will be kept
forever.
My BKMA partners,
All of you coloring my life. Thanks for happiness and laughter that we share. Thanks also for spirit that you gave.
Someone who always in my dream and hope
Andri “markidul dudul”
Who always support me to finish my thesis. Who is always beside me in a sweetACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillahirrabbilalamin, all praises be to Allah SWT for the mercy and
love.Because of His guidance, blessing and affection, the writer can finish this thesis. Also may sholawat and salam always be given to the last messenger Muhammad
SAW.
The researcher would like to express her deepest gratitude to Mr. Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd and Mrs. Dr. Sri Hartiningsih, M.M for their kindness in giving
suggestion, guidance and advice during the consultation period.
Her sincere gratitude and appreciation are also extended to the English
Department lecturers who have given her an opportunity to conduct interview. Finally, special thank goes to beloved father and mother, who always pray for her, give love, advice, support, and much expense to study.
Malang, October 30, 2013 The writer,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL ... i
LEGALIZATION ... ii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION ... iii
ABSTRACT ... v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... vi
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Research ... 1
1.2 Statement of Problem ... 5
1.3 Purpose of Research ... 5
1.4 Significance of Research ... 6
1.5 Scope and Limitation ... 6
1.6 Definition of Key Terms ... 6
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Perception ... 8
2.1.1 Types of Perception... 8
2.1.2 Influencing Factors of Perception ... 9
2.1.3 Process of Human Perception ... 10
2.2 Digital Native... 10
2.3 Digital Immigrant ... 13
2.4 Language of Digital Native ... 14
2.5.1.5 Game and Application ... 19
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter some aspects of introduction of thesis are explained. Those
aspects are: background of the research, statement of problem, purpose of research, significance of research, scope and limitation, and definition of key terms.
1.1 Background of the Research
There are a number of labels to describe the young people currently researching at school or college. They include the digital natives, the net generation,
the Google generation or the millennial. All of these terms are being used to highlight the significance and importance of new technologies within the lives of young people (Gibbons, 2007).
According to Bennett, Maton and Kervin (2008) Digital Natives are those born roughly between 1980 and 1994. Digital natives are people who have grown up
in the digital world using technology as a way to communicate record, educate and understand society. Digital natives have very fluid and constant communications just
not on the phone. With the rise of texting, chat and social media news feeds, digital natives are highly connected with those in their personal networks. According to Prensky (2001) the natives have subtle differences in speech, social interaction, and
Internet, television, movie, room chat and social networking are factors that influence
language development of digital native. It is different with digital immigrant that not too familiar with technology.
According to Marc Prensky (2001), digital immigrants are those of us who were not born into the digital world. They cannot learn to use technology effectively and efficiently, but they will always have an „accent‟ (Prensky, 2011) as they learn
the language of technology. It is the reason why digital immigrants quite different with digital native. The differences between digital immigrant and digital native can
be seen in their language use.
In the statement before said that digital native‟s language is influenced by
technology development. It means that when they find out new words from the
technology they use, they will use it in their daily activity. It is suitable with their characteristic that is easy to accept new transformation in their life including
language or new words. The new words that they use such as, cemungud (keep spirit), ciyus (serious), miapah (what for), eah (yes), vuk (fuck) etc. In fact, digital immigrants never use those words. It is because digital immigrant‟s language
development is not influenced by technology development. Those words like cemungud in digital immigrant as semangat, ciyus as serius, miapah as demi apa, eah
as iya and vuk as fuck, but the digital immigrant use this word rarely.
Their language differences observably in their status updates on facebook. Facebook is one of social networking that helps every people to communicate more
Parent‟s guide of facebook (2012:12), there are two pages on facebook, that are home
and profile in the upper right corner of any facebook page. Profile is more about what people see of you and home about what you see of others on facebook. Digital natives
usually use facebook to express their feelings in a sentence form; they usually use words that never be used by digital immigrant in their sentences. On the contrary the digital immigrants almost use common words in their sentences on their facebook
status update. Sometimes the digital immigrant cannot understand the meaning of digital natives‟ status updates on facebook. It is because the digital native‟s sentence
with their new words is hard to comprehend. This condition causes many misunderstanding between digital immigrant and digital native so the perception will appear.
Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting information received from outside world (Lahey, 2004: 114). According to Rakhmat, (2001:51) perception
can be obtained by inferring information and interpret the message. There are two types of perception: positive and negative perception. Positive perception can be said as a good perception and negative perception is a bad perception. Rahmat (2001)
states there are two factors that influence perception. First is personal factor or internal factor comes from two sources; physical and psychological. The second one
is situational factor/external factor are stimulus and environment factors where perception is continuous.
the some previous studies about perception and facebook conducted by Rahayu (2012), Indriawati (2011), and Ni‟mah (2012).
A research conducted by Rahayu (2012) “Digital Natives‟ Perception toward
the Mobile Phone Roles in School at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Malang” reveals that the digital native needs mobile phone in school during the class to help them knowing something about the lesson that they did not know before by searching in internet. It
is showed that digital natives are familiar with technology. They cannot be separated with the technology.
Indriawati (2011) investigated about colloquial language found on English writing update status on facebook focused on what are colloquial words found on English writing updates status of facebookers and what are technical terms used to
form the words based on word formation process. This research reveals that there were 90 colloquial words. There were 43 colloquial words based on the theory word
formation process and 47 colloquial words did not belong to the theory found on Engling writing updates status facebook in internet www.facebook.com. There were 8 technical terms used based on theory word formation process to form the colloquial
words.
Ni‟mah (2012) investigated about the word formation of the alay language in
status update on facebook, describes the word formation of the alay language used by facebookers and give the meaning of the alay word in Indonesia. This research
alay words do not conform the theory word formation and 22 alay words are called immigrants toward language of digital natives‟ status updates on facebook, especially
the perception of English Department lecturers as digital immigrants. The researcher assumed that language lecturers would give negative perception toward the language of digital natives‟ status updates on facebook because this language is out of
Indonesia standart language and the digital native‟s status update is sometimes hard to be understood by the digital immigrants. It is of the researcher‟s interest to analyze
what the English Department lecturers as digital immigrants‟ perceptions are toward the language of digital natives‟ status updates on facebook.
1.2Statement of the Problem
What are English department lectures at University of Muhammadiyah Malang as digital immigrants‟ perception toward the language of digital natives‟
status updates on facebook?
1.3Purpose of the Research
To know English department lectures at University of Muhammadiyah Malang as digital immigrants‟ perception toward the language of digital natives‟ status updates
on facebook.
1.4Significant of the Research
After this research has been completed, theoretically the researcher attempts to provide a real description about the digital immigrants‟ perception toward the
facebook status updates of digital natives. Practically, it helps the digital immigrant more understand about the digital native.
1.5Scope and Limitation
The scope of this research focused on language of digital natives‟ status updates on facebook. The researcher limits the research on digital immigrants‟ perception toward the language of digital natives‟ status updates on facebook.
4. Facebook Status Update : one of features that is always used by every
user to share their direct activity that they do, share their feeling and other friends could give
the direct comments, choose like sign or symbol to show that the reader interested in the status (Ilmimaghfaroh, 2012).
5. Perception : perception is an active process of creating meaning by selecting, organizing and
