A Study Of Request Strategies Used By EFL Baturaja University Students: Studi Strategi Permintaan yang Digunakan oleh Siswa Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Baturaja

  Abstract: The problem in this study contents is about the request strategies used by ESL Baturaja University Students. The aim of this study was to determine the most common request strategies used by EFL Baturaja University students. In this analysis, the descriptive approach was used as the research methodology. The study had 80 student population. The  sample  of  the  study was 22 that  were taken by cluster  random  sampling  taken  from  English  students  of  English  education  study program in academic 2020/2021. For collecting the data  writer  was  used  a  discourse  completion test (DCT). Based on the result of the data showed that in the discourse completion test  (DCT) regarding the strategy requests used by students. So the result was as much as 16.55°/c student responses used direct strategies, as many  as  8 I .81/c  student  responses  used  conventionally indirect, and as many as I .62°/c student responses used  Non- conventionally indirect. lt means t hat, the dominant request strategies used by EFL was t he conventionally indirect.   &nbsp