Refusal Strategies Performed by Javanese English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners

摘要

Refusal is one of speech acts that people perform. This research specifically identified the most common strategies used in performing refusals and how Javanese EFL learners use the refusal strategies regarding the status of the refuse. The research was conducted in faculty of education Sampoerna University and involved 34 participants. The data were collected using discourse completion tasks (dct) and were analyzed using categorization of refusal strategies proposed by Beebe et al. The results show that most of participants utilize indirect strategies especially excuse/reason/explanation as the most common used strategy. In addition the participants are also identified to use direct "head act" and "pre-refusal" strategies in their refusals. The results also indicate that Javanese EFL learners use different refusal strategies depend on the status of the refuse. However, in several cases participants utilize similar strategies to refuse interlocutors' request, offer, invitation and suggestion from different social status.