Abstract:
People perform their action when they are saying a word. Speech acts play an important role in human’s interaction because when people say something, they do not only deliver the meaning of the utterance but also the intended meaning beyond it. The researcher is interested in analyzing speech act and uses Searle’s speech acts theory to investigate and to describe the speech act made by teacher in reading class. The objective of this thesis is to identify the type of speech acts used by teacher in reading class at sixth semester of English department of UMP in academic year 2012/2013.
The thesis is descriptive qualitative study on speech acts used by teacher in reading class at sixth semester of UMP in academic year 2012/2013. The aim of this study is to identify the type of speech acts used by the teacher and the data of this study is the utterances in the dialogue or speech used by the teacher in reading class.
The result of this study shows that there are 586 utterances and the researcher just analyzes 176 because the others are not included in 5 types of speech acts. The teacher only made 3 types of speech acts, they are representative 23. 9%, directive 67. 6% and expressive 8. 5%. Directive is the most used by the teacher. The teacher did not make 2 types of speech acts, they are Declaration and Commisive. The researcher hopes this thesis will enrich the knowledge and experience for the readers especially about speech act. Hopefully, it will teach us to be wiser in learning English.
