THE ANALYSIS OF CAPITALIZATION ERRORS ON INSTAGRAM

Sulistyowati Sulistyowati, Maria Agustia Harsanti, Aulia Nanda Cholizah, Lutfiyah Lutfiyah

Abstract


Social media has become a trend nowadays. Almost social media users share their activities, interests, and even their problems on their own accounts. Instagram is one of the social media platforms which has received a lot of attention from Indonesian influencers. It wasn’t uncommon for them to use English when they write their captions on their Instagram. This research aims to analyze capitalization errors in Instagram captions written by Indonesian influencers. There are several accounts of Instagram to be analyzed in this research. This research was conducted using descriptive qualitative research. The researchers chose the accounts from account @englishbusters, which makes Indonesian influencers learn better English. The researchers analyzed Instagram captions from several accounts of Indonesian influencers period March 2019. The influencers were chosen as subjects since they have a lot of followers. As we know, Instagram was a fun, easy, and popular platform that many users are involved in and engaged with. It would be assumed if the influencers did some errors, they would be impacted and imitated by their followers. In contrast, if the influencers used some good habits in their caption using English, their followers gain positive effects. Keywords: Capitalization errors, Instagram, Indonesian influencers

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