Open AccessSpeech Act and the Analysis for English Text Book Material Development at Eleven Grade of Vocational High School
Author(s) -
Algajaladre Nadya Santoso,
Laily Nur Affini
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eternal/eternal english teaching journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2614-1639
pISSN - 2086-5473
DOI - 10.26877/eternal.v10i2.4977
Subject(s) - psychology , speech act , vocational education , linguistics , mathematics education , qualitative research , pedagogy , computer science , sociology , philosophy , social science
The aim of this research is to recognize the types of speech acts, conveyed by an English teacher at a vocational highschool, using Searle’s theory and to discover the dominant kinds of speech act employed by the teacher. The researcher also there were additional utterances used by the tecaher in showing learning movement. The research methodology is descriptive-qualitative research. In this research, the researcher found that there are three kinds of speech act uttered by the teacher; they are directives, representative and expressive. The reseacher calculated the data finding and found 397 utterances. The data found that there are 246 directives utterances with the percentage is 61,96% , 45 representative untterances with the percentage is 45%, and 6 expressive utterances with the precentage 1,51% . The most obtrustive is directives speech act (61,96%) and the most seldom is expressives speech act (1,51%). The most obtrustive is directives because the teacher often used directives (questioning) to handle the students in the classroom and make sure that the students understood the aims of the English material.