Open AccessAn Analysis on Compliment Responses in English among Javanese People
Author(s) -
Arum Sekar Nurhijannah
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of english language teaching, linguistics, and literature studies/journal of english language teaching, linguistics, and literature studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2807-5625
pISSN - 2807-422X
DOI - 10.30984/jeltis.v1i1.1506
Subject(s) - psychology , indonesian , test (biology) , social psychology , significant difference , developmental psychology , linguistics , medicine , paleontology , philosophy , biology
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.