SPEECH ACTS USED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN EFL CLASSROOM

Abstract

Classroom interaction during teaching and learning process is essential to perform effective learning to gain a successful teaching and learning process. It is important to find out the types of speech acts uttered by the teachers since their speech acts will contribute to their classroom practices in teaching. This study is aimed to investigate teachers‘ speech acts used for teaching English in EFL classroom and its implication in a classroom context. The subject of this study was English teachers of seventh-grade students in a Junior High School with adequate experiences of teaching EFL. The method of the study was descriptive qualitative by observing to collect data. Three cyclical steps were used to analyze the data: data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing or verification. The findings showed that there were four speech acts used by the teacher namely assertive, directives, expressives, and commissives. Directives speech acts became the most largely used ones because it is more comprehensiblein a classroom setting.
Keywords: EFL classroom, English teachers, speech acts