LENGTH OF STUDY AND STUDENTS’ COMPREHENSION OF ENGLISH CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE

Hendi Pratama, Joko Nurkamto, Sri Marmanto, Rustono Rustono

Abstract

This research aims to find the correlation between students of English education program’s length of and their pragmatic comprehension especially dealing with conversational implicature. The design of this research is cross-sectional comparison between different batches of student groups. There are 141 students from semester 2, semester 4 and semester 6 involved in this research. They are given a Pragmatic Acceptability Judgment Task (PAJT) to test their comprehension on conversational implicature in English. The result shows that students pragmatic comprehension develop along with the students’ level of education i.e their length of study.

Keywords: motivation; pragmatic comprehension, interlanguage pragmatics, conversational implicature 

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20961/pras.v0i0.1540

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