The Students’ Attitude towards the Lecturer’s Transactional Expressions

Abstract

The study is the description of students’ attitude towards the use of lecturer’s transactional expressions in the teaching and learning process. One class of English Department was chosen randomly from three respective universities in Makassar. The questionnaire was distributed and the students’ responses were collected. To analyze the students’ responses, Likert Scale was used. Based on the analysis, it was found that the students have positive attitude towards the use of the lecturer’s transactional expressions with 70.36 mean score. The result implies that the lecturer’s transactional expression is one of the decisive factors in the teaching and learning implementation. For the students, such expression gives an enormous impact on their behavior, which automatically afflicts their successful learning outcome. For the lecturers, the use of transactional expression is the conveyance vehicle of successful teaching quality.

Key words: Students’ attitude, Lecturers’ transactional expressions