The use of discourse markers among the students of English Department of UIN Walisongo Semarang in the academic year of 2021/2022

This study aims to analyze the types and function of discourse markers are used by the students of English Language Education Department of Walisongo State Islamic University students in the academic year 2021/2022 during the oral presentation. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative method. The research participant used in this study amounted to 11 students, from students who were in several semesters of Walisongo State Islamic University in the academic year 2021/2022. In collecting data, the researcher paid close attention and recorded the presentation process and then transcribed it. In analyzing the data, the author used the theory of Chaudron and Fortuna. The results of this study shows that there are 9 types of discourse markers in oral presentations, namely contrastive, elaborative, implicative, temporal, segmentation, emphasis, starter, meta-statement, and conclusion marker. The most frequently used discourse markers are elaborative markers used to indicate two different things, then implicative markers used to denote or elaborate the information, and emphasis markers used to reformulate the information. The rest only partially appear in the transcript data. In addition, each discourse marker found in the data has its own function. In this study, contrastive markers function for showing a contrastive ideas, elaborative for describing in more detail, implicative for providing an explanation of the previous statement, temporal for showing sequences, segmentation for turn-taking, emphasis for topic switcher, starter for start or open. The presentation, meta-statement for re-focusing, and the last conclusion for close the utterances