Abstract:
Language is the most important things that people must have. This
research concerned in linguistic, and the objective of this study are to identify the
types of performative utterances in the textbook of Look Ahead and applying the
types in language teaching. Performative are used to understand the intended
meaning of all utterances, especially in oral communication. It is very important
to be used because it helps us to understand what is really meant by the speaker.
This research is a qualitative research and the researcher used a descriptive
qualitative method. The data analysis is from the textbook of Look Ahead. The
researcher applies this research to language teaching, it means that after analyzing
the data the researcher explain about how to application this analyses to teaching
English especially in teaching speaking skill. To get the data analyzing to be
analysed the types of performative it has many steps they are finding, reading
textbook, identifying the utterances, reading the articles, and will be find the data.
Based on the analysis, there are five types of performative that found in
the textbook of Look Ahead. There are Verdictives, Exercitives, commisives,
behabitives, and expositives. The application types of performative utterances that
used in the textbook of Look Ahead is used in the speaking teaching learning, and
give several benefits to the students and teacher; interesting the student to learn,
increase understanding of a topic, add interesting to a subject, understanding the
student about utterances, and increasing the students and teacher conversation.
