The Hedges realized in abstract and conclusion : a study at English Language Education Department of UIN Walisongo Semarang

Hedges are very crucial on scientific academic research especially on thesis abstract and conclusion, because at this case the students must understand on the research that has been conducted. This research is mostly discussed about hedges on thesis abstract and conclusion of The Undergraduate Degree of Walisongo State Islamic University Semarang.This research employs qualitative research method. Qualitative research is the appropriate research method dominantly used for this study because the explanation of this study concerns the comprehensive elaboration of the nature of phenomenon, namely hedging realized in in Thesis Abstract and Conclusion of The Undergraduate Degree of Walisongo State Islamic University Semarang. The conclusion of this research is that there are 27 or 13,43% hedges with type of modal auxiliary, there are 40 or 19,9% hedges with type of full verbs, there are 29 or 14,43% hedges with type of adverb, there are 17 or 8,46% hedges with type of adjective, there are 68 or 33,83% with type of nouns, there are 7 or 3,48% hedges with type of question, there are 13 or 6,4% hedges with type of other hedges and there is no clausal element hedge or 0% for clausal elements hedges. The most hedges used is nouns and no one use clausal elements hedges