Salichah, Imraatu (2015) Hedges and Boosters in undergraduate students' research articles / Imraatu Salichah. Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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Salichah Imraatu. 2014. Hedges and Boosters in Undergraduate Students Research Articles. Thesis Graduate Program of English Language Teaching. State University of Malang. Advisors (1) Dr. Enny Irawati M. Pd. (2) Prof. Dr. Yazid Basthomi M.A. 12288 12288 12288 12288 Keywords hedges boosters articles. 12288 12288 12288 12288 This research is aimed at investigating the use of hedges and boosters in undergraduate students research articles. There are two problems in this research those are (1) How is the use of hedges manifested in the articles written by undergraduate students of English Department at the State University of Malang (2) How is the use of boosters manifested in the articles written by undergraduate students of English Department at the State University of Malang 12288 12288 12288 12288 The design of this research was mixed method research design based on the text analysis. The data of this research were taken from 73 articles consisted of 304.883 words selected from undergraduate students research articles of English Department at State University of Malang in the graduation academic year 2012/2013. After collecting all the research articles the researcher classified the data of hedges into five types of hedges proposed by Hyland (1998a) they are modal verbs epistemic adjectives epistemic lexical verbs epistemic adverbs and epistemic nouns. Furthermore based on the taxonomy of boosters proposed by Hinkel (2005) the data were classified into three categories they are universal pronouns amplifiers and emphatics. The supporting instruments used to analyze the data were AntConc 3.4.1w software and the rubrics of hedge and booster classifications. 12288 12288 12288 12288 The results showed that the students used more hedges (69.08%) than boosters (30.92%) in their research articles overused modal verb can (frequency 1.096) or 36.75% of the total modal verbs (frequency 2.982). The overused modal verb can explained that can is the most familiar hedge typically taught to and digested by Indonesian EFL learners. Furthermore the researcher also found the misuse of hedging device of can. The misused hedging devices by the students showed that they lacks of knowledge of English rhetoric. Besides the highest rate of booster is universal pronoun (frequency 914) or 60.65% of the total boosters (frequency 1.507) found in the articles written by undergraduate students indicated that the students overstated and exaggerated the statements which represented a valid rhetorical means of conveying the power of the writers conviction and obvious evidential truths. The use of universal pronoun in the article can project a hyperbolic and inflated impression. Furthermore the students used more hedges as a way of reducing the risk of opposition as a mean of being polite and as a way to obscure their authorial identity while advancing their opinion. However the writers also used boosters to show their research originality and also when they were quite sure that their claims share some universal understanding. 12288 12288 12288 12288 Based on the results this research suggests the EFL lecturers to pay attention to the significance of hedges and boosters to enrich the students knowledge on the parts of discourse. This might become references for advisors to have many attentions on students under their guidance. Familiarizing students with the rule and norms of academic writing might help students especially those who write their final assignments. Moreover the present research can be a stepping stone for the future researchers to investigate hedges and boosters in academic context written or spoken for the comparison. There can be further studies on certain hedges and boosters typically employed by particular group of people. There can also be further research investigating the functions or motivations behind the use of hedges and boosters in academic writings by also interviewing the authors. Finally the studies on hedges and boosters in academic spoken discourse for instance in English debate can be carried out for the sake of exploration of English linguistics in general.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S2 Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Users 2 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2015 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2015 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/58695 |
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