The Updating Status in Facebook: The Interference of English among Users in Academic Context | Zendy

Roslina Roslina | Zendy; Nurhayati Nurhayati | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

The Updating Status in Facebook: The Interference of English among Users in Academic Context

Author(s) -

Roslina Roslina,

Nurhayati Nurhayati

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

utamax journal of ultimate research and trends in education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2685-4252

pISSN - 2685-0540

DOI - 10.31849/utamax.v2i2.4039

Subject(s) - prestige , interference (communication) , context (archaeology) , computer science , language transfer , linguistics , psychology , natural language processing , natural language , telecommunications , comprehension approach , channel (broadcasting) , paleontology , philosophy , biology

This study investigates the interference of English use made by Facebook users in writing status on their account. The purpose of this study is to discover the interferences and reveal the factors that cause interference on Facebook status. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method to elaborate, describe, and disclose kinds of interference and also the elements of interference that Facebook users produced in updating status. The research showed that the way of the Facebook users in transferring their source language to target language tends to be negative transfer, or it is called language interference. The negative transfers made by Facebook users are semantic and grammatical interference. The factors that cause the interference are bilingualism background, disloyalty target language, limited vocabularies of TL mastered by a learner, prestige, style, interlingual factor, overextension of analogy, and transfer of structure.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research