Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature Studies
Vol 1, No 1 (2021)

An Analysis on Compliment Responses in English among Javanese People

Arum Sekar Nurhijannah (Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Aug 2021

Abstract

The study aims at exploring the differences of compliment responses in English among Indonesian males and females. The study consists of 20 English learners in University State of Yogyakarta. The participants are expected to respond five scenarios in a modified Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The participants’ responses are submitted to SPSS and Paired Samples T-Test is applied. It reveals that each scenario has different responses but it doesn’t have significant difference among male and female participants in responding the compliments. Both male and female participants tend to agree the compliment using appreciation token.

Copyrights © 2021






Journal Info

Abbrev

jeltis

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Journal of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature Studies (JELTIS) publishes academic articles that recognize successful engaged learning depends on effective partnerships between students, faculty, community agencies, administrators, disciplines, and more. The journal invites ...