The Influence of Lecturers’ Language Style Toward Higher Students’ Psychological Condition in Indonesia

Abstract

Human beings need to interact and communicate with each other in their lif. This interaction and communication may appear in different language styles. This is much more influenced by a situation or place where communication takes place. In class, for example, the language utilized by lecturers in the class room is different from others. This research aims at exploring lecturers' language style and its implication to student's psychological condition in Indonesia. The main question in this research is what kind of language style used by the lecturer in the learning process? does the using of lecturers' language style influence students' psychological condition? What are the factors that affect the presence of lecturers' language style? This research used the grounded theory method by Keraf language style theory (2006), perlocutionary act theory of Austin (1962), and Leech's politeness theory (1983). This research was conducted at Institut Agama Islam Negeri Kendari, Indonesia. Observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation were used as data collection. The results indicated that (1) there were two kinds of lecturers' language styles which are always delivered to students, namely language style based on sentence structures and language style based on directness and indirectness of meaning (2) the using of that language style has a great influence on students' psychological condition. There are three psychological conditions of the students, they are motivation, self-efficacy, and interpersonal relation. Each of them creates a positive and negative condition, (3) The using of language styles were influenced by some factors, namely culture and ethnicity.

Lecturer’s Language Style and Students’ Academic Self Efficacy in Higher Education of Indonesia

“…Sarcasm is a style of expressing upset and angry by using rude words. Simile language style is a style that comparing one thing with another thing and always uses comparison (Keraf, 2006;Batmang et al, 2018). Based on the interviewing with the students, this research finds that climax and oxymoron style include positive language style.…”

“…The psychological impact can take the form of selfmotivation, self-efficacy, and the creation of good interpersonal relationships in vice versa (Gunawan & Kadir, 2017). Increasingly, some experts agree that culture, language, and social factors are being recognized as having an impact on learning (Batmang, et al, 2018).…”

Attitude of Foreign Language Learners on Nonverbal Communication and Privacy in Communicative Classes

“…The smile would be a good example of the universality of NVC. Everything communicates including what the people wear, Their voice pitch and tone, and the manner they handle their bodies, the way they seat or even stand (Elfatihi, 2006;Batmang, Gunawan, Abdul Samad, & Shamsuri Md Saad, 2018) said that 60% of our social meaning is through NVC (Hall, 1959). Even some researchers like Neulieo (2003) postulated that as much as 90% of all communications are nonverbal.…”