THE ENGLISH REGISTER USED BY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIANS AT HI-TECH MALL SURABAYA THESIS By Agung Prasetyo 07360125 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG 2012 i
THE ENGLISH REGISTER USED BY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIANS AT HI-TECH MALL SURABAYA THESIS This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to Achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education By Agung Prasetyo 07360125 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG 2012 ii
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MOTTO AND DEDICATION MOTTO HAI ORANG-ORANG YANG BERIMAN, JADIKANLAH SABAR DAN SHALAT SEBAGAI PENOLONGMU, SESUNGGUHNYA ALLAH BESERTA ORANG-ORANG YANG SABAR (AL- BAQARAH 153) DEDICATION I would like to thank to Allah SWT that gives me a way and my family especially my mom thanks for your spiritual and material. Thanks for all my brothers, thanks your suggestions and support me until finished this thesis. And all my friend especially at English department class C, thanks your pray and support me. And novie, thanks your pray, support, book material and motivation. And then to all my Friends at UMC Pasuruan, thanks for your pray and support me. And the last, thanks for all people who love me. v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful, praise is just to Allah, the creator the world and protector of all of creatures. By Allah s guidance the writer can finish this thesis. Peace and Blessing always be on our prophet Muhammad SAW. The writer would like to express deepest gratitude to Dra. Erly Wahyuni, as the first advisor and Drs. Munash Fauzie Anwar, MM. as the second advisor whose patience, suggestion, correction, and advice during the consultation period complete this thesis. The writer feels that words will never enough to acknowledge them. The writer s gratitude and appreciation goes to dear my mom (Tri Djunaedah) who always give motivation, spirit, support to finish this thesis. His thanks also go to the all my brothers thanks for their attention, pray and support. Thanks so much for Novie Rahayu, you are my best friend who always gives me advices, support and gives me inspirations The writer say thank you to my friends especially at Muhammdiyah University of Malang. The writer say thank you for the people at Hi Tech Mall Surabaya because they were give permission and time to do this research. And last thanks to My Friends at UMC Pasuruan who always support me to finish this thesis. Malang, July, 2012 AGUNG PRASETYO vi
THE ENGLISH REGISTER USED BY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIANS AT HI - TECH MALL SURABAYA. ABSTRACT People as a social creature cannot avoid interacting with other people in the world. It means that they must communicate with their society. Language is a meansof communication, including sentences that are appropriate in various situations. Sociolinguistics is a part of the language which learns about society. This means that we have capacity to produce the languages that signify certain meaning to understand or to interpret the languages produced by certain community. Register is one of the language varieties that is used based on the use or the subject matter. The English register used by Information Technology Technicians is much and not all people know it well. Technician is a worker in a field of technology who is proficiently (professionally) to relevant with skills and techniques,a relatively practical understanding of the theoretical principles. The technicians usually have register to communicate each others. The register is used when the technicians are working together in the workplace. This study was conducted to know the English registers used by information technology technicians at Hi-Tech Mall Surabaya. The research design of this study was descriptive qualitative research. This research using research subject. Because of limited time, the researcher took observation from four stores, such as Perdana Computer, Gito Computer, Tan Computer and Istana Computer. And the researcher did the interview to ten technicians who had different experiences. Finally, the questionnaires distributed to seventy five technicians. The research finding of the research was the English registers used by information technology technicians at Hi-Tech Mall was 52 words. The different names of English register showed that there were 30 Technicians who had more than one year experience used standard English registers when they working. 20 dan 15 technicians who had more than 5 years and 10 years experience had different names of English register arround 3.The last, 10 technicians who had more than 15 years experience had different names arround 5. Key word : English Register, Information Technology, Technicians The Advisor I Malang, July 2012 The Writer Dra. Erly Wahyuni, M.Si Agung Prasetyo vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS APPROVAL... i LEGALIZATION... ii MOTTO AND DEDICATION... iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... iv ABSTRACT... v TABLE OF CONTENTS... vi CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION... 1 1.1. Background of the Study... 1 1.2. Statement of the Problems... 5 1.3. Purpose of the Study... 5 1.4. Scope and Limitation... 6 1.5. The significance of the Study... 6 1.6. The definition of Key Term... 7 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE... 9 2.1. Language... 9 2.2. Communication... 10 2.3. Sociolinguistics... 12 2.4. Register... 13 2.5. Speech Community... 15 viii
2.5. Information Technology Technician... 16 CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY... 19 3.1. Research Design... 19 3.2. Research Subject... 19 3.3. Data Collection... 20 3.3.1. Observation... 20 3.3.2. Interview... 22 3.3.3. Questionnaire... 25 3.4. Data Analysis... 29 CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION... 30 4.1. Research Finding... 30 4.1.1. The Kinds of English Registers used by Information Technology Technicians... 30 4.1.2. The Meaning of English Register Used by Information Technology Techinicians... 33 4.1.3. The Different names of English Register Used by Information Technology Technicians... 38 4.2. Discussion... 40 CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION... 42 5.1. Conclusion... 42 5.2. Suggestion... 43 BIBLIOGRAPHY... 45 APPENDIXES... 47 ix
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