The Analysis of Formal and Casual Language Style in RM’s Speech at the United Nations General Assembly and its Application in Teaching Speaking
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2024-08-19
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English Education Program Teacher Training And Education Faculty Purworejo Muhammadiyah University
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This research aims to find out the types of formal and casual language styles in the video RM’s Speech at the United Nations General Assembly and to describe the application of the analysis on the formal and casual language style in RM’s Speech at the United Nations General Assembly in teaching speaking at the eleventh-grade student of senior high school.
This research belongs to descriptive qualitative research. The object is the video entitled RM’s Speech at the United Nations General Assembly. The data from this research are scenes and speeches that have formal and casual language style in the video. To collect the data, the researcher did some steps. Those searching RM’s speech on YouTube UNICEF, downloading RM’s speech on YouTube UNICEF, watching RM Videos, and finding a speech transcript from the UNICEF website.
In analyzing the data, the researcher takes several steps: finding the formal and casual language style in RM’s speech, grouping the data into types based on formal and casual language style based on Martin Joos, and applying the findings in teaching speaking. The result of this research shows that there are 63 data contained language styles that are classified into 3 kinds of language style: 15 language styles formal (24%), 16 language styles neutral (25%), and 32 language styles casual (51%). The findings of this research can be applied in teaching speaking especially Greetings and Introducing Yourself. The researcher suggests teachers and students to use speech videos as learning media.