The Interpersonal Meaning of Positive Valuation of Appreciation in ELT Articles

Abstract

The objective of this research is to find out and describe the implementation of interpersonal meaning of positive valuation in four ELT articles. The concept of positive valuation of appreciation is when a human being participant gives value criteria to things or non-human being objects based on its benefits (Martin and White 2005:56). In order to analyze the objects, this research applied qualitative design with valuation lexical list as the instrument. The first object showed the positive valuation to the research method, object as the good impression material, time of occurrence, the strength of data findings behind its weakness, and the study limitation. The second object showed the implementation to the standard product quality, independent character, and competence indicator. The third object showed the implementation to the potential benefit of a research object. The fourth object showed the implementation to the skill values, research design, the validity of research process and collecting data steps. It is concluded that the application of positive valuation of appreciation identification could help researchers to select the potential benefits of the non-human being objects for their research plan and process.