Abstract:
In a school, most of teachers and students learn English language skills
from textbooks. Study openinng discourse is one way to have a good knowledge
especially to make a conversation.
The researcher focuses on the study of revealing opening discourses used
in conversations in the textbook : Look A Head published by Airlangga. Source of
the data used in this study was conversations in the textbook. The researcher used
a qualitative type of research to conduct this study and the researcher herself as
the key instrument. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research to explain
each opening discourse.
The result of this study was opening discourse that appears in the 259
opening discourse divided in to 19 catagoriesThey are 3 (1,16 %) of term address,
9 (3,47 %) of answer, 5 (1,93 %) of self – identification, 10 (3,86 %) of summon,
5 (1,93 %) of greeting, 12 (4,63 %) of offering, 9 (3,47 %) of acceptance, 39
(15,06 %) of inform statement, 42 (16,21 %) of opine statement, 35 (13,6 %) of
identification question, 11 (4,24 %) of polarity question, 18 (6,94 %) of
confirming question, 18 (6,94 %) of asking for something / someone, 18 (6,94 %)
of thanking, 5 (1,93 %) of apologizing, 5 (1,93 %) of acknowledge, 5 (1,93 % ) of
agreeing, 9 (3,47 %) of responding object, 4 (1,54 % ) of declining.The
application from the finding of opening discourse found in the conversations used
in the Look A Head Textbook, the materials can be applied in teaching speaking
skill, especially in expressing opinions and giving opinions in the first semester of
eleven grade.
