Gender differences affect a person's communication style from various
aspects, one of which is in the choice of words, phrases, or sentences. The purpose
of this research is to find out about communication styles of male students, what
are the communication styles of female students and what are the differences in
communication styles between male and female students. This research can also
help teachers to find out the communication style of their students so that they can
increase students' strengths and help students' deficiencies in the learning process.
The researcher used Tymson's theory to analyze the communication styles of
male and female students and the differences between the two. This research
implements descriptive qualitative as the research method because it provides
results in a descriptive way. The data are collected by interview. Then, analyzed by
the theory of Miles and Huberman, namely data reduction, data display, and
conclusions.
The research results are explained in line with the formulation of the problem.
First, male students have a communication style focused on information, report
style of speaking, goal driven and succinct language. Second, female students have
a communication style focused on relationship, rapport style of speaking, process
oriented and storytelling style of speech. Third, the differences between male and
female students are emphasize, fillers and discourse particles, hedging, intensifiers
or boosters, questions, credits claiming and topics.