Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020)

Drop your ‘Hello!’ here!”: Investigating the Language Variation Used in Online Classroom for Tertiary Level in Indonesia

Authors
Laila U. Qodriani, I Dewa Putu Wijana
Corresponding Author
Laila U. Qodriani
Available Online 3 December 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201201.107How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Computer-mediated communication, teacher, online classroom, language variation, turn
Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic situation in 2020 puts the entire educational sector into online activity globally. The communication process in teaching and learning activity has moved into computer-mediated communication and the explosion of the online classroom has become the most favorite media. One of the phenomena in some online classrooms is the variation of the language used by teachers and students to engage with each other. Both teachers and students need to produce a communicative language to interact while showing the possible turn to give the floor. For English language teachers and learners in Indonesia, the variation is also used as the negotiation of meaning as they are also the non-native speaker of the language. Thus, the conversation turns resulting in various types of language used. There were24 online classroom activities in tertiary education analyzed in this research to see the possible variation expressions used for a turn. The procedure for analysis was much on text analysis combined with some basic interviews which were done virtually. The result shows that the variation of the language used as a way to minimize the disparity between teacher and learner as the language behaviour to maintain the relationship in digital communication

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
3 December 2020
ISBN
978-94-6239-285-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201201.107How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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