A Study of disagreement strategies used by male and female students of the English Department of Petra Christian University toward their male and female teachers - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

In campus life, expressing disagreement is a common thing.
For this reason, the writer is interested to find out how gender and
solidarity influence male and female students? disagreement strategies,
mainly whether they are confrontational or nonconfrontational, toward
their male and female teachers. The data of this study are 25 male and
25 female students of the English Department of Petra Christian
University. The writer used a discourse completion test that is
questionnaire to collect the data. She made four role-play situations in
order to help the respondent in expressing their disagreement easily.
Then, the data are categorized based on Garcia?s (1989) classification
of disagreement strategies, concerning confrontational and
nonconfrontational, and put them in tables. In this study, she analyzed
the data with a statistics analysis in order to get significant results.
From the statistics, she found that the male students have no
significant differences of disagreement strategies toward their male
and female teachers. On the other hand, it shows there is significant
differences of confrontational and nonconfrontational used by the
female students toward their male and female teachers. The female
students tended to use confrontational strategy toward their male
teachers, mostly they used "challenge." It may be because they felt
uncomfortable when talking to male teachers. By using "challenge,
they just demanded response or even just an answer from the male
teachers as their interlocutors, as soon as possible. On the contrary,
they tended to use nonconfrontational strategy, especially "giving
reason," when the interlocutors are female teachers. Perhaps they felt
more comfortable in the same-sex interaction than in cross-sex
interaction.

Contributor
• (94-013) Julia Eka Rini
• (88-011) Ester Harijanti Kuntjara

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 1173/ING/2003; Meyke Margaretha (11499005)
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