“They Gotta Think about the Women First, You Know…?” Does Speaking like a Native Matter?: A Contrastive Analysis of Indonesian and Anglo-american Students’ Speaking

Risa Rumentha Simanjuntak

2018

Abstract

Speaking well in English is both an important and coveted quality for university graduates. University students in are often asked to pay close attention and even mimic the way naïve speakers use their English for successful learning. This study contrasted the use of English for academic presentations between Indonesian and American students. Indonesian students’ corpus of 6-hour presentations was compared to their Anglo American corpus available in MICASE (Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English). Lexical elements, such as choice of words, phrases and collocations, which identify how English was naturally spoken, were investigated. Data were analyzed using AntConc 3.5.7 (2018) and resulted in different realizations of English speaking between Indonesian and American student presenters. The Anglo-American presenters were more informal and conversational compared to the Indonesian presenters. Meanwhile, the American students used more colloquial expressions compared to the Indonesian students. Implications on teaching and evaluating speaking were further discussed following the ongoing debate of native and non-native dichotomy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Simanjuntak R. (2018). “They Gotta Think about the Women First, You Know…?” Does Speaking like a Native Matter?: A Contrastive Analysis of Indonesian and Anglo-american Students’ Speaking. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 221-225. DOI: 10.5220/0010005400002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Risa Rumentha Simanjuntak},
title={“They Gotta Think about the Women First, You Know…?” Does Speaking like a Native Matter?: A Contrastive Analysis of Indonesian and Anglo-american Students’ Speaking},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={221-225},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010005400002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - “They Gotta Think about the Women First, You Know…?” Does Speaking like a Native Matter?: A Contrastive Analysis of Indonesian and Anglo-american Students’ Speaking
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Simanjuntak R.
PY - 2018
SP - 221
EP - 225
DO - 10.5220/0010005400002917