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Analysis of Question Number 5 

 

From the fifth question of the questionnaire, the respondents’ answers were also varied. 

Fourteen respondents answered TV and Film; 2 respondents answered Popular Music; 10 respondents 

answered Internet (social media); and 4 respondents answered Friend’s chat. The percentage of the 

answer is as follows: 46,67% respondents answer A, 6,67% respondents answer B, 33,33% 

respondents answer C, and 13,33% respondents answer D. It can be seen from the answer that the way 

they acquire English slang words varied. None of the four options given gets more than 50%. The 

highest percentage 46,66% goes to answer A meaning that most respondents acquire English slang 

words through TV and Film. 

 

TV and Film prove to be the main sources of slang words for most of respondents, if 

compared with popular music, social media and friend’s chat. It can be understood because TV 

program and films or movies have become part of students’ everyday life and indirectly affect the way 

students’ communication. Second source after TV and film is Internet (social media). Nowadays, 

social media have become a bridge for students to communicate with their friends or maybe with 

someone whom they don’t know (strangers). The social media which are commonly used by students 

for example Facebook, Twitter, Path, Tumblr, and chatting applications like Blackberry Messenger, 

Line, Whatsapp, and Wechat. 

 

Besides TV program, movies and social media, popular music is the third source for students 

to acquire English slang words. Music contains an expression or feeling which is sung with sequence 

of tone and words. Today the song lyric is also inspired by love life or daily life that is often 

experienced by people. Sometimes a song which is inspired by teenagers’ life contains slang words to 

make the listeners feel familiar with the song which makes it easy for them to memorize and sing it 

again and again. Last but not least, friend’s chat. Some people are often influenced by someone’s chat 

or the way someone communicates with others. In this case students in university sometimes hear 

some kind of words that they do not know before and they ask to their friends what’s the meaning of it 

is. Unconsciously they finally use it when they communicate with their friends. Thus, the fifth 

question answered the second problem formulation that watching TV and film is the way they use to 

acquire English slang words. 

 

 

 

 

Figure 5 Bar Chart of Question Number 5 Analysis 

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