Illocutionary Acts Found In EFL Classroom Interaction At SMK Pelayaran Jakarta

Abstract

In daily life, people communicate and interact between each others by using common language. As the speaker, we should convey the utterances clearly to avoid misinterpretation and misunderstanding by interlocutors. Therefore, both speaker and interlocutors should learn about pragmatics particularly speech acts to comprehend regarding the intended meaning and their context. This concept also applied in English teaching-learning activities in the class. Both the teacher and the students should comprehend the intention behind their utterances. Moreover, for EFL learning process, the teacher will do some interactions with the students. Therefore, it is very important for implementing pragmatics aspect particularly speech acts in EFL teaching-learning activities to enhance the students ability in comprehending the intended meaning behind utterance and their context. Furthermore, the writer conduct this research that aimed to analyze the classification of illocutionary acts based on Searle theories, their function and the structure of illocutionary acts that applied in each expressions or utterances in 65 utterances or expression that performed by the teacher when doing EFL teaching process. Furthermore, qualitative research is used to collect data, analyze the data, and create conclusion based on the analysis' findings. This research used Searle theory for analyzing the illocutionary acts that used by the teacher in EFL teaching-learning process, therefore this research used case study as approach. In the EFL teaching-learning activities, data were illocutionary acts in every utterances or expressions that performed by the teacher. The finding was out of 65 data (utterances), there were 42 directive data, 11 representative data, 11 expressive data, 1 commisives data and no declaration datum related to the categories of illocutionary acts in the teacher’s utterances when doing EFL teaching-learning process. Furthermore, Directives are the most appeared illocutionary acts that found from 65 utterances as the result of data analysis. The function of Directives acts are asking, commanding, questioning, reminding, requesting and suggesting. Moreover, the structure of illocutionary acts used direct structure to convey their intention.