FILLERS USED BY KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS

This thesis focuses on the study of fillers used by kindergarten students. The
research method used in this study was descriptive qualitative. The data of this
research was analyze by Interactive Model of Miles, Huberman and Saldana
(2014). The purpose of the study was: (1) to describe the types of fillers used by
kindergarten students in telling picture; (2) to elaborate the occurrences of fillers
used by kindergarten students in telling picture; (3) to describe the function of
fillers used by kindergarten students. The subject of this study were 20
kindergarten students. All of the 20 sources of data are five years old. And all
kindergarten students had been the sources of the data. It was based on theory of
Arikunto (2010), if the subjects are under 100, it is better to take all as the
subjects. The data of this research were the utterances consisting of fillers in the
form of the lexical empty (sounds), words and phrases of fillers used by the
Kindergarten students when telling picture. And the instrument of collecting the
data here used observation. Based on the data analysis proved that : (1) the types
of fillers used by kindergarten students in telling picture were lexicalized and
unlexicalized fillers, (2) the occurrences of fillers used by kindergarten students
occurred in three location, at the boundary (front), after the first word (in the
middle) and later (in the last sentence), and (3) the function of fillers used by
kindergarten students in telling picture were found three functions, they were as
hesitating, empathizing and editing terms.