This study aims to explore the use of request strategies produced by Indonesian students who were studying abroad. Fourteen Indonesian students who were studying abroad involved in this study and nineteen Indonesia students who were living in Indonesia involved to equip this study as a comparison of request strategies which performed by the Indonesian students who were studying abroad. The main instrument used in this study is Discourse Completion Test (DCT) which consists of five social situations. The data were analyzed by using the CCSARP (Cross Cultutal Speech Act Realization Project) coding scheme, developed by Blum-kulka, House and Kasper (1984).
The result of this study shows that the students who were studying abroad use direct and conventionally indirect strategies to perform the act of request. Regarding the choice of request strategies, the query-preparatory is the most frequently strategy used by the Indonesian students. Moreover, in the choice of request strategies, it is influenced by the social distance, social power and the weight of imposition. The social distance and social power influenced the students to choose certain request strategies according to the relation to the hearers, while the weight of imposition affect the students in combining the use of request strategies in various kind of situations. |