Repairing strategies of Teachers’ Speech errors at Basic English Course (BEC) Pare, Kediri

ABSTRACT

Every human wants to speak fluently, but in delivering speech people often do speech errors in speaking. It occurs when someone is feeling nervous, drunk or forgetting something to say, and etc, in uttering the sentence or phrases. Speech error is done by men in producing the language, but they also make some strategies to repair the speech errors (self-repair). It is done because people want to clarify or just search the right word to repair the speech errors.

This study has two objectives. Since the writer intends to investigate on the repairing strategies of teachers’ speech errors at BEC, the two objectives aimed to: identify the types of repairing strategies used by the teachers’ at BEC and figure out on how the teachers at BEC repair their speech when they do speech errors.

This study uses descriptive qualitative method since it aims to understand the social phenomena. The data are all the teachers’ utterances of Basic English Course Pare, Kediri. The analysis is done through Levelt’s theory of repairing strategies of speech errors (self-repair)

This study finds that the teachers used repairing speech errors in their speech. Some types of repairing strategies of speech errors which are used by the teachers during delivering speech are editing terms, interrupting the utterances, the correction and its relation to the original utterance which focused on the grammatical errors produced by the teachers. They make self-repair when they unintentionally stop in mid sentence, forgets the utterance that they want to say then made kinds of speech error that they think need to be revised.

As a final point, this study found three types of repairing strategies of speech errors. Those are editing terms, interrupting the utterance and the correction and its relation to the original utterance. Furthermore, this study can give suggestion to the people especially on the teachers that they should not speak in a high speed of speaking to avoid many speech errors occur in the conversation.