AN ANALYSIS OF PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCES IN TEXTBOOK OF LOOK AHEAD FOR THE SECOND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND ITS APPLICATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

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.