Analysing Communication Strategies of Youtube Video by Students of English Department in Unimus

Abstract

This research aims at explaining communication strategies (CS) used by the 4 th semester students of English education in University of Muhammadiyah Semarang. Data gained from the transcription of YouTube video in each channel owned by students. This descriptive qualitative study observed the frequency of communication strategies employed by students by analyzing their utterance used Tarone's typologies of communication strategies. Based on the analysis, it can be seen that the use of communication strategies in speaking class were dominated by Topic Avoidance (28%), followed by Message Abandonment (24%), and Approximation (20%). After that, it is followed by Mime (16%), and Literal Translation (12%). It can also be said that the 4 th semester students of English department of University of Muhammadiyah Semarang employed 25 communication strategies in their YouTube video.

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