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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