HEDGES IN THE “REVIEW TO RELATED LITERATURE” OF THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ SKRIPSI OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCTION FACULTY OF MURIA KUDUS UNIVERSITY

Yuliyana, Widiarti (2014) HEDGES IN THE “REVIEW TO RELATED LITERATURE” OF THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ SKRIPSI OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCTION FACULTY OF MURIA KUDUS UNIVERSITY. Update Test thesis, Universitas Muria Kudus.

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Academic writing is a special genre of writing that prescribes its own set of rules and practices. It has objective to inform to readers. It has eight main features. One of them is hedges. Hedges are linguistic expressions which are used by authors or speakers to soften their statement or an idea. It is necessary to make decision about our stance on a particular subject or the strength of the claims we are making. There are seven expressions of hedges that are composed by Salager-Meyer. The example of those hedges, such as can, should, assume, claim, usually, etc. Hedges here are as the expression of doubt and uncertainty. Besides that, Hyland summarized the functions of hedges into two types. They are content motivated hedges (accuracy based hedges and writer based hedges) and reader motivated hedges. Hedges are very important role in academic writing. Skripsi belongs to academic writing because it is different from ordinary writing. So, hedges has important role in making skripsi. The objective of this research is to identify the types of hedges and to find out the functions of hedges used in the review to related literature section of undergraduate students’ skripsi of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative research method. The data of this research is types of functions of hedges in the “review to related literature section” of undergraduate students’ skripsi of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University. The data source of this research is the “review to related literature section” of skripsi between 2009 until 2013 of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University. As the sample the data source of this research, the writer takes 10 skripsi to representative those skripsi. As the result of analysis the data, the writer draws some conclusion that shows frequency of the types and functions of hedges found in the “review to related literature section”; they are modal auxiliary verbs (116=31.18%), modal lexical verbs (125=33.60%), adjectival, adverbial and nominal modal phrase (8=2.15%), approximators of degree quantity, frequency and time (63=16.94%), introductory phrases (43=11.56%), if clauses (7=1.88%), compound hedges (10=2.69%). Then, the writer also found two functions of hedges used in review to related literature section; they are accuracy based hedges (193=51.88%), writer based hedges (166=44.62%) and reader motivated hedges (13=3.50%). This finding shows that the writers of the skripsi prefer to use modal lexical verb when they make claim and stance in the “review to related literature section”. Because in the “review to related literature section”, the writers of skripsi express theories from experts’. And, hedging devices of modal lexical verb is used the writers of skripsi to quotations from others’ as references they need to support their research. Besides that, the writers of skripsi also use accuracy motivated hedges when they make claim in the review to related literature section because the writers of skripsi want to imply that the proposition is based on plausible in the absence of certain knowledge. The writer considers hedges are very important in academic writing. So, the students can use hedges to make of statement and it makes do communication do more smoothly. For the English teachers, they can use hedges in teaching learning process as an additional the material of English subject. Then, the next researchers can analyze hedges of teachers’ and students’ speaking in teaching and learning process of English subject.

Item Type: Skripsi/ Thesis (Update Test)
Dosen Pembimbing: pembimbing 1:Agung Dwi Nurcahyo,S.S.,M.Pd, pembimbing 2:Diah Kurniati, S.Pd, M.Pd
Kata Kunci: Academic Writing, Hedges, Types of Hedges, Functions of Hedges
Subjects: Bahasa dan sastra > Bahasa Inggris
Program Studi: Fakultas Keguruan & Ilmu Pendidikan > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Mr Firman Al Mubaroq
Date Deposited: 08 Apr 2014 03:29
Last Modified: 08 Apr 2014 03:29
URI: http://eprints.umk.ac.id/id/eprint/2666

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