THE REQUESTING LANGUAGE PERFORMED BY MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI BATANG KUIS

This study deals with the requesting language performed by male and female students. The objective of this study were 1) to investigate the kinds of request performed by male and female students in doing interaction at informal context, 2) to investigate the request linguistically performed by male and female students in doing interaction at informal context, and 3) to investigate the request performed by male and female students in doing interaction at informal context as the way they are. It was applied by using descriptive qualitativ research. It was conducted at Smp Negeri 2 batang Kuis involving 3 male and 3 female students. The data were collecting through observing, recording and interviewing them. The data of this study were 44 male students utterances and 42 female students utterances which were taken in three area of school: canteen, area in front of the class, and parking lot. The findings showed that 1) syntactical realization and lexical realization were found in the students utterances. The fourth kinds of syntactical realization namely imperative, interrogative, declarative, and modal auxiliary also found in their utterances. 2) the way of request linguistically performed by male and female students was direct way. Similarly, the way of request linguistically performed by nale and female students perform request in the way they are namely interculators and age.