MAHBUB HERMANSYAH, 120730404 (2013) PREFERRED AND DISPREFERRED RESPONSES IN THE DIALOGUES OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL�S ELECTRONIC ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS. Skripsi thesis, UNIVERSITAS AIRLANGGA.

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Abstract

This study analyzed some English textbooks' dialogues of two Junior High School's electronic books (BSE) from www.bse.depdiknas.go.id English in Focus for Grade VII, VIII, and IX. Those textbooks are commonly known as Buku Sekolah Elektronik (BSE) or Electronic Books (E-Books). E-Books were officially launched by Indonesia Government in 2008 as the new innovation to provide textbooks in the form of softcopy especially for teachers and students in Indonesia. It is aimed to make Indonesian teacher and student able tp download them freely and easily. However, as the mostly used English textbooks in teaching-learning, the dialogues in those textbooks reveal some inaccuracies. In doing the analysis, Conversation Analysis (CA) is used as the parameter. CA itself is the area of discourse examining the problems and phenomena that occur in conversation properties in a variety of setting and contexts. The focus of this study is on the accuracy of talk involves preferred and dispreferred responses in four action sequences: invitations, offers, requests, and apologies in those two textbooks. The results of this study is the writer concludes that most of the problems are the dialogues do not show natural conversation and because those dialogues do not follow the characteristic of preferred and dispreferred response.

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