Creating interesting, natural utterance is not easy. Language features take important role to make it happen because language features could make utterance more natural and more interesting; therefore, the research entitled: Gender Differences in the Use of Language Features in Students’ Utterances was conducted. The aims of this research are: firstly is to find out what types of language features used mostly by students. Secondly is to analyze gender differences in the use of language features. The research used the qualitative method and it was found out that language features mostly used by English and engineering students are: adjacency pairs, hedges and discourse markers, but they have differences in using each of them. In using adjacency pairs, engineering students chose the ones that lead to direct answer such as question-answer; English students chose greeting-greeting. Engineering students mostly used approximator, whereas shield was used by English students. They also used ‘oh’ and ‘hmm’, and ‘I think’ mostly; on the other hand, engineering students used ‘well, and ‘oh’ as discourse markers more. From the result it could be concluded that engineering students are more confidence and answer questions directly to the point; however, English students seem a little bit lack of confidence, and they like to make utterances longer with better choice of words and more polite.

Key words: adjacency pairs, discourse markers, hedges, language features