The Analysis of Illocutionary Acts in Narrative Text of Eleventh Grade Students at SMA Negeri 5 Medan

Abstract

This thesis attempts about an analysis of using Illocutionary acts in writing narrative text made by the eleventh grade students. The objective of the study is To find out the kinds of illocutionary acts that the student applying in writing narrative text. This study was conducted into descriptive qualitative method. The instrument of collecting the data was writing test. The data were analyzed by what types of illocutionary used by student in writing narrative text. The result showed that there are 35 data on using illocutionary acts in writing narrative text with 11 directives, 11 assertives, 5 commisives, 4 declaratives, and 4 expressives in students writing narrative text.