AN ANALYSIS OF ABBREVIATION WORD USED ON FACEBOOK BY SEVENTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF IAIN BENGKULU (ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-2018)

Riski, Wulandari.HR, (2018) AN ANALYSIS OF ABBREVIATION WORD USED ON FACEBOOK BY SEVENTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF IAIN BENGKULU (ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-2018). Other thesis, IAIN BENGKULU.

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Abstract

Abbreviation is a short form from a word or more by taking the initial letter or another letter. The objectives of this research are to find out kind of abbreviation word used on Facebook by theseventh semester students of IAIN Bengkulu, abbreviation word that is frequently used by students on their social media Facebook, and the reason of students used abbreviation word on their Facebook context. The design of the research was a descriptive qualitative research. The sample of this research were all of the population which means that all of the seventh semester students of English Department IAIN Bengkulu. The researcher uses interview, observation checklist, and doucumentationto classify the forms of abbreviation that was used by students. The findings of this research; (1) Kind of abbreviation word used on Facebook by the seventh semester students of English Department of IAIN Bengkulu is acronym; (2) The proper abbreviation that was frequently used by the seventh semester students of English Department of IAIN Bengkulu on their social media Facebook was HBD abbreviation; and (3) There were three reasons of the students of seventh semester at IAIN Bengkulu used abbreviation word on their Facebook; first, to follow modern trend which has developed among the teenagers; second, to follow or imitate their friends, and; third, to look as a cool or an impressive one

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