INTERACTIONAL METADISCOURSE IN UNDERGRADUATE THESES INTRODUCTIONS BY ENGLISH STUDENTS OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

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INTERACTIONAL METADISCOURSE IN UNDERGRADUATE THESES INTRODUCTIONS BY ENGLISH STUDENTS OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

Description

The aims of this research are at investigating the interactional metadiscourse and the most dominant interactional metadiscourse category in the background of the undergraduate thesis introductions written by English students of Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu. This study involved thirty-three thesis backgrounds in 2019 Academic Year. This study followed the metadiscourse framework of Hyland (2009) in investigating the interactional metadiscourse in the corpus of the research. The results of this research showed that five categories of interactional metadiscourse found in the thesis backgrounds, were hedges, attitude markers, self-mention, boosters, and engagement markers. In addition, the most dominant of interactional metadiscourse category found in the backgrounds of the undergraduate theses introductions was hedges. The findings of this research can give information to the English students especially for Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu students on the variation and the function of interactional metadiscourse in building the sentences when they are writing the essay or thesis.

Creator

ANNITA INTAN PUTRI
1421110130.P

Advisor: Eki Saputra, M. Pd.

Source

ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM

Publisher

upt

Date

06/04/2021

Contributor

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY BENGKULU

Rights

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY BENGKULU

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ANNITA INTAN PUTRI 1421110130.P and Advisor: Eki Saputra, M. Pd., “INTERACTIONAL METADISCOURSE IN UNDERGRADUATE THESES INTRODUCTIONS BY ENGLISH STUDENTS OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU,” Repository Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu, accessed April 20, 2024, http://repo.umb.ac.id/items/show/1881.