PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE IN USING ENGLISH: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN INDONESIAN STUDENT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION’S (HEI’S) WRITING TASK

Abstract

This study examines the use of pragmatic competence in the online writing tasks of Indonesian students in higher education institutions. The research focuses on analysing the discourse of written texts to identify the pragmatic features and strategies employed by the students when using English. Discourse analysis is administered as the method in this qualitative research. In depth interview is used in as the instrument to  gain valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by Indonesian students in developing their pragmatic competence in online writing tasks. Furthermore, the study aims to investigate the impact of pragmatic competence on the overall quality of the students' online writing. As the result researcher finds that Increased explicitness is the use of additional words in order to make the interlocutors’ point clear based on their assumptions because of the interlocutors’ cognition which is based on their language. Besides, the shift in the pattern of a preposition is the use of prepositions which is unmatched by the use of prepositions in English of Native Speakers (NS), but based on the interlocutors’ language cognition.