Rusdi, Hanna Fadilla
(2022)
Teachers’ Speech Acts and Students’ Response during English Class on the Third Year at SMPN 29 Padang.
Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.
Abstract
This study aims to find out the types of speech acts and the students’ response toward the utterances used by English teachers during teaching and learning process. This study employed descriptive qualitative research. The participants of this research were five English teachers. The sample was chosen using the purposive sampling technique. The criterion for choosing the sample was the teachers who teach English on the third year at SMPN 29 Padang. The instruments of this research were observation sheet and video recording. The study used Searle’s theory to analyze the data. The findings showed that there were four types of illocutionary acts performed by the teachers. There were representatives,
directives, expressives, and commissives. The teachers used 92 utterances. From 92 utterances, directives discovered to be the most uttered speech acts which occurred 52 times (56,52%), representatives were used 33 times (35,87%), expressives were used 7 times (7,61%), and commissives appeared to be the least speech acts used by the teachers which only occurred in 1 utterance (1,09%). Overall, the result of this research showed that the use of directive speech acts apparently allowed them to understand what the teachers’ meant during teaching and learning activities.
However, by looking on how the students’ response toward the teachers’ utterances, the students more responsive when the teachers used expressives speech act during teaching and learning process.
Keywords: Teachers’ Speech Acts, Illocutionary Acts, Students’ Response,
Teaching English
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