The Communication strategies in conversations used by the good and poor students of speaking 4 of the english department of petra christian university

Rahayu, Fonny (2004) The Communication strategies in conversations used by the good and poor students of speaking 4 of the english department of petra christian university. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.

Abstract

This study observed the communication strategies used by good and poor students of speaking four in Faculty of Letters. It focused on kinds of types of communication strategies produced by good students, kinds of types of communication strategies produced by poor students, and the differences between the good and poor students in using communication strategies in a conversation. The data were taken from recording the conversation in which the topics were made by the writer. The role-play was done by twenty students, ten of them are good students and ten of them are poor students. The data were analyzed based on the theory of communication strategies. The findings showed that the good students used seven strategies; meanwhile the poor students used six strategies. The number of using the strategies shows that the good students are more successful than poor students in maintaining conversations.

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