AN ANALYISIS OF COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES USED BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF FKIP LAMPUNG UNIVERSITY
Abstract: Basically, this research is aimed at
investigating the use communication strategies done by the students at the
English Department of FKIP UNILA in
their attempt to
overcome problem in
getting a lexical
meaning across in
English. This include the
description of (1) types of strategies used, (2) effectiveness rate, (3)
characteristics of their use, (4) their frequency of occurrences, and (5)
reasons for their use. The results indicate that the
communication strategies used
previously and the
effectiveness rate were
as follows: topic avoidance
(2.14%), appeal for assistance (33.33%), literal translation (33.33%), message abandonment (54.56%),
circumlocution (65.07%), approximation
(66.67%), language switch (71.43%), word-coinage (75.00%). The
characteristics are risk taking, risk avoiding, L2-based, non-linguistic based,
repetition, and reconstruction of the utterance. Furthermore, the reasons of using
the strategies are naturally motivated by the efforts to avoid communication
breakdowns. Ultimately, they can be categorized into: linguistics and
psychological limitations.
Author: Basturi Hasan
Journal Code: jppendidikangg120011
