Open AccessThe Pattern of Information Structure in Junior High School Students in Informal and Formal Conversations
Author(s) -
Aprilia Rosmarie
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jurnal ilmu pendidikan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2442-8655
pISSN - 0215-9643
DOI - 10.17977/um048v26i1p1-7
Subject(s) - conversation , sentence , focus (optics) , subject (documents) , predicate (mathematical logic) , pedagogy , psychology , information structure , mathematics education , linguistics , computer science , communication , world wide web , philosophy , physics , optics , programming language
Since language as a communication tool, that’s why information structure is really important in language system and in the communication process. This research is aimed to find out the pattern of information structure in junior high school students, in one of junior high school in the private school in Semarang. The researcher focused on informal and conversations between student-student and teacher-student or student-teacher. The researcher got thirty six conversations of informal and formal conversations. This was a qualitative research and the researcher focused on Topic and Focus of each conversations, since topic and focus are important constructions in giving the information or constructing the sentence. As the result, in formal conversation, both of speakers (teacher or students) tended to eliminate the subject, or the TOPIC (47 %), while only 33 % of eliminating the predicate or the FOCUS, and the rest is only 20% showed that there was no any elimination in the conversations. Meanwhile, in the informal conversation, both of speakers (teacher or students) tended to eliminate the subject, or the TOPIC (60%), while only 27% of eliminating the predicate or the FOCUS, and the rest is only 13% showed that there was no any elimination in the conversations.