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Chapter X RESEARCHES IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS

Questions for Discussion

1. You want to analyze how the 6th year students of elementary school use codeswitching from
Javanese to Indonesian and vice versa.

b. What is the title of your research?

The analysis of codeswitching at 6th grader students of elementary schools.

c. How would you collect the data?

By interviewing the students and directly the students

d. What are the possible research questions?

Why the students use codeswitching for their daily communication ?

Does it effects in their environment ?

e. What might be the research theoretical and practical contribution to the existing
knowledge?
In can be reference to the researcher that focus on code switching and analyze the
code switching.
2. You watched a TV interview between a minister and the host. You noticed that there was an
unequal distribution of turns. It seemed that the host was trying to overtake most of the time,
driving the minister into a certain belief tailored by the host in support of the ideology of a
particular opposition political party.

You want to conduct a CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis).

a. How would you collect the data?

By investigating the suspicious statement from the host

b. What is the title of your research?

Investigating the reason behind the ideology of political party

c. What are the possible research questions?

How does the ideology affects to the environment ?

Why would possibly happen to environment after the host gave the statement ?
 d. What might be the research theoretical and practical contribution to the existing
knowledge?

It can be modal for researcher who is identifying or investigating the same or similar
project.

3. There is a title for a future thesis “INTERACTIONAL EXCHANGES IN THE THIRD YEAR OF SMA
MUHAMMADIYAH MAGELANG IN A CLASS OF READING

COMPREHENSION”

a. How would you collect the data?

By using qualitative method and collect the data with questionnaire

b. What are the criteria for a good interactional exchange in a reading class?
Get the information from the internet.
intiation moves, response moves(the answering move), and follow- up moves

c. What are the possible research questions?

What is the most dominant talk take place in reading classroom ?

What is kind of classroom interaction take place between teacher and the student ?

d. What might be the research theoretical and practical contribution to the existing
knowledge?

It can be reference for the future researcher based on the research question and the
purpose of the research

4. Get a friend who can speak bi-dialect of Javanese, for example Yogya dialect and Banyumas
dialect. Interview him or her how he or she could do that. Also ask him to read a Javanese text,
using each of the dialects. Record his or her speech, and get the native speaker of each dialect
for judgment. a. Write a report on your activities with respect to

i. Approximation of each dialect relative to the standard form

the language is very similar, the different is the intonations and the
pronounciation
ii. Possible interchangeable errors in the two dialects
when the word in Yogyakarta and Banyumas has the same word, but actually
it has different meaning
iii. The theoretical contribution it might have
it can answer the same research question about dialect and language
differences in the future
b. If at all possible, present your findings in a mini seminar.
5. You are interested in how an individual coming from a remote region with a strange local
language gets along linguistically in one of the cities: Yogyakarta or Magelang. You really want
to conduct a research for your final project.

a. What do you think is the best title for your study?

The analysis of tourist demand in Magelang a case study at Borobudur.

b. What are the possible research questions?

What is the tourist attraction in Magelang ?
Why Magelang become a remote region along the country ?

c. How would you collect the data?

By using qualitative method and interviewing the visitors in Magelang.

d. What might be the research theoretical and practical contribution to the existing
knowledge?
It can be reference for similar studies in the future.
6. You are doing a code switching research in one of the local radio broadcasts in Magelang,
answer the following issues:

a. How would you collect the data?

By interviewing and collecting the data using qualitative method and conclude the result

b. Is an interview necessary to support your findings? Explain your arguments.

Yes, because we can get the concrete data.

c. What contributions do you think your research has?

It can be reference to the future studies that has similar context of research in code
switching.

7. You are doing a research on the mastery of medical registers among the students of medical
faculty, Unissula Semarang, answer the following issues:

a. How would you collect the data?

Interviewing the student of medical faculty of Unissula

b. Is an interview necessary to support your findings? Explain your arguments.

Yes, for analyzing the data, we have to do the interview for get the concrete data

c. What contributions do you think your research has?

the future contribution may help the similar research findings in order to analyze in medical
issues

8. You are doing a research on the use of politeness strategies in the dialogues presented in one
English textbooks for Junior High School, answer the following issues:

a. How would you collect the data?

 By using questionnaire to get the data

b. Is an interview necessary to support your findings? Who will be interviewed? Explain your
arguments.

Not really because for this case we may use questionnaire to get the data and saving time,
the students.

c. What contributions do you think your research has?

It may help future studies for other researchers.

d. Where or to which individuals would you direct the suggestions based on the research
findings?

Teachers.

9. You are interested in critical Discourse Analysis and would like to conduct a CDA in a
comparative study between two local newspapers on a certain issue/event.
a. What newspapers (Indonesian-based) are best for comparison?
Merdeka and Kompas

b. In CDA, what features of the two newspapers would you like to compare?
The context of the newspaper

c. With respect to the two newspapers, is your CDA research descriptive, evaluative in
nature? Explain your argument.
We may explain advantages and disadvantages both of the newspaper
d. Please formulate the research questions/ Statement of the problems
What effect does the newspaper have in people minds ?

e. What theories are you going to use in this research? Remember that CDA is very closely
related to Systemic Functional Linguistics.

The Fairclough theory.

10. You are interested in research of ‘new Englishes’ and would like to conduct a study, focusing on
to what extent your students are interlingually approaching the native English.
a. What semester of the English Department Students would be best to represent as the
subjects of your study?
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b. Since it is impossible to assess the four language skills at one time research, what skill
would you like to investigate first

Speaking

c. How would you collect the data?

By using qualitative method and questionnaire the data

d. What research instrument would you use for this study?

questionnaire
e. What contributions would you expect from this research?
It may help future research similar with the research findings of this analysis.