Abstract:
This research deals with referring expression on the caption of instagram
official account. The objectives of this research are to find out types of referring
expression contained on the caption of instagram official account and To describe
the application of Referring Expression to teach writing at the eighth Grade of
Junior High School
This research belongs to qualitative research. The data source of this
research is the caption of instagram official account published on 29th April-12th
May 2017 that contained of referring expression. The instrument of this research
is the researcher itself. Collecting the data used four steps and the tecnique of
analysing data used four steps.
The result of this reserch shows that there are 516 from the total referring
expression that found on the caption of Instagram official account, it consist of
313 personal pronouns(56%),84 proper names (15%), 109 definite noun phrases
(19%) ,and 55 indefinite noun phrases(10%). The dominant data is pronoun that
contained in instagram’s caption. The referring expression can be applied in
teaching writing at the eight grade of junior high school.
