LEXICAL VARIATION OF FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FKIP HKBP NOMMENSEN UNIVERSITY

This research is the study on the lexical variation in campus daily communication among friends on the first year students of English Department FKIP HKBP Nommensen University Pematangsiantar. The Purpose of the current paper is to find out the lexical variation in campus daily communication among friends on the first year students of English Department FKIP HKBP Nommensen University Pematangsiantar and the factors influence it. The students came from many places around Pematangsiantar Town and Simalungun Regency even out of North Sumatera Province. They are chosen by the writer because of the students can be the representative of students of English department of Teachers Training Faculty problem in case of anxiety in speaking English. There are some reasons why this research is necessary to be done. First is the need of documentation for English department of Teachers Training Faculty HKBP Nommensen University Pematangsiantar. This documentation can be necessary for the needs practical and scientific uses in the next time. The second is to investigate the the lexical variation in campus daily communication among friends on the first year students of English Department FKIP HKBP Nommensen University Pematangsiantar and the factors influence it. The findings of preliminary research for the sake of this study shows that lexical variation that are mostly used by the students in their daily campus communication among friends influenced by the factors as proposed by Wardhaugh (1972:188) namely: age, sex and occupation, function and regional variation. At the end, based on the core theory of language variation, this article also proposed some strategies to solve the problem as Wardhaugh (1972) proposed in his previous findings.