Research Article
Cognitive Process of Comprehending Pragmatic Meaning by Senior High School Students
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.24-9-2024.2353252, author={Monica Thamara Simanjuntak and Berlin Sibarani}, title={Cognitive Process of Comprehending Pragmatic Meaning by Senior High School Students}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership, AISTEEL 2024, 24 September 2024, Medan, North Sumatera Province, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={AISTEEL}, year={2024}, month={12}, keywords={cognitive process pragmatic meaning semantic}, doi={10.4108/eai.24-9-2024.2353252} }- Monica Thamara Simanjuntak
Berlin Sibarani
Year: 2024
Cognitive Process of Comprehending Pragmatic Meaning by Senior High School Students
AISTEEL
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-9-2024.2353252
Abstract
This research is done by using a descriptive qualitative design. The study's data source is the twelfth grade of SMA Swasta Methodist. the approach used in this research was based on Thomas’s theory (1995).The data were collected by using retrospective introspection and in-depth interviews. The findings from problem 1 that the subjects of this study use five cognitive processes in comprehending the pragmatic meaning of the text. They are, Using a combination of explicit structure knowledge and semantic, semantic and tacit knowledge, semantic and knowledge of the world, Pragmatic meaning, and knowledge of literature meaning of sentence. The most dominant is using semantics with knowledge of the world. And the least used process is pragmatic meaning.
