A STUDY OF EXPRESSIVE GRATITUDE OF THANKING
STRATEGY AS USED BY EFL LEARNERS
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
AGUSTIN SHINTA WIDYOWATI
112010058
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
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A STUDY OF EXPRESSIVE GRATITUDE OF THANKING
STRATEGY AS USED BY EFL LEARNERS
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
AGUSTIN SHINTA WIDYOWATI
112010058
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INSIDE COVER PAGE ……… i
APPROVAL PAGE ………..…………..... ii
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT ………..……….... iii
PUBLICATION AGREEMENT DECLARATION ………...……… iv
TABLE OF CONTENT ………..….….. v
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION….…....……….….…… 12
CONCLUSION ……….. 18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ……….…... 20
REFERENCES ………..……. 21
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LIST OF TABLES
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A Study of Expressive Gratitude of Thanking Strategy
as Used by EFL Learners
Agustin Shinta
Abstract
This paper attempts to investigate thanking strategies in expressive gratitude used by English Department students as EFL learners. This paper also analyze whether there are any possibilities of difference strategies in expressing gratitude among non-native speaker. This study is important since thanking strategies have a tendency to build relation among interlocutors, Hinkel (1994). The participants in this study were 70 non-native speakers. They were given Discourse Completion Test (DCT) in an attempt to elicit thanking strategies for the data. The data were analyzed, coded and discussed based on the taxonomy of thanking strategies expression gratitude by Cheng (2010). The results show that simple thanking strategies were used by English Department students to express gratitude. Other strategies of thanking strategies expression gratitude were also found in this study.
