A STUDY ON REGISTER USED IN LIVE TEXT COMMENTARIES ON UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2014 ROUND OF 16 MATCH “BARCELONA VS MANCHESTER CITY” AND ITS CONTRIBUTION IN TEACHING WRITING

Abstract

In society, language is remarkably varied. One of the language varieties is register that is a language used in certain job or situation. Furthermore, this thesis is about study on register used in live text commentaries of football match. The writer is interested to do this research because the writer wants to know some uncommon vocabularies which have different meaning based on the contexts. There are two aims in this thesis. The first aim is to find out the forms of register used in live text commentaries on UEFA Champions League 2014 Round of 16 Match “Barcelona vs Manchester City”, while the second aim is to describe the implementation of some registers found in ‘live text commentaries’ in teaching writing to the tenth grade students of vocational high school. In this thesis, the writer uses documentation as the technique of collecting data. The writer looks for some live text commentaries from internet and decides two live text commentaries from UEFA Champions League 2014 Round of 16 Match “Barcelona vs Manchester City” in the first and second leg that will be analyzed. After that, the writer reads these live text commentaries carefully. Meanwhile, in analyzing the data, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method because the data produced are in the forms of words rather than number. The writer takes some uncommon vocabularies from the ‘live text commentaries’ and analyzes which can be called as registers. The result of this thesis shows that there are forty registers found in the ‘live text commentaries’. Compounding words are the most dominant form of the registers found (37,5%), word with 32,5%, derivation with 12,5% and borrowing with 5%. There are also acronym, abbreviation, clipping, conversion and multi processes with 2,5% for each. Moreover, some registers found in ‘live text commentaries’ are used to teach writing to the tenth grade students of vocational high school in the material of words and expressions used in expressing preference and capabilities. Hopefully, this study will be useful for the teacher in teaching English and also for the students who are concerned with writing subject.