Abstract

Describing language is one of the most important tasks in Linguistics. Language description may give valuable contribution to language teaching practice. This paper is concerning with describing learners’ language used for chatting. Chatting is a spoken language which is written. As a natural language it may have its own structure which can be described. From the point of view of syntax, spoken language usually has its own set of grammar patterns which sometimes may be quite different from that in written language. Language used for chatting would likely provide important information moreover if it is done by language learners who are in the process of trying to make sense of the series of knowledge both on language elements and their usage in the real communication. Chatting task with foreigners was applied to the early semester of English learners. Using Syntactical and Conversation Analysis, this study found the characteristics of the natural language used for chatting and some strategies used by the participants to survive the communication. The description gives an important clue to the benefits of chatting activities for the English learners.

Highlights

  • Describing language is one of the most important tasks in Linguistics

  • RESULT AND DISCUSSION Syntactical Description on Learners’ Language Used for Chatting Based on the chatting script got from the respondents it can be identified that the average number of words that the respondents produced in each turn is six

  • This study found that in maintaining the conversation learners use clarification, shifting, avoidance, and interruption

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INTRODUCTION

Describing language is one of the most important tasks in Linguistics. Language description may highlight the understanding about the complexity of language itself which in line with the primary goal of scholarly research that is to describe the world. Language used for chatting would likely provide important information if it is done by language learners who are in the process of trying to make sense of the series of knowledge both on language elements and their usage in the real communication Provided that, this piece of study, is closely related to conversation analysis. Based on the explanation above, the writer would identify in the process of turn taking between respondents whether they follow the rules; i.e. to put relatively familiar information at the beginning of a sentence, and relatively new, unfamiliar information closer to the end and how the respondents achieve the meaning in turn taking by using grammatical and lexical strategies such as reference, the use of words or phrases that substitute the same grammatical slot such as so, do, one, etc., ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion. The writer identify the most common syntactical construction used by the learners

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