| dc.description.abstract | This thesis is a study about an analysis types of speech act used by english teacher in teaching learning process of the second grade at SMA Negeri 7 Medan. This research is conducted by applying Descriptive Qualitative Method. The purposes of this research was to identify the types of speech acts performed by the English teacher in SMA NEGERI 7 Medan on the basis of Searle’s theory of speech acts and to identify the most dominant kind of speech act. The object of this research is the english teacher of the second grade namely Dra.Darnauli Lbn Tobing,M.Pd. The data were in the form of words, phrases, and utterances employed by the teacher. The instrument used for collecting the data is by observation accompanied by video recording. The data were, then, transcribed into the written form, selected to fit the objectives of the research, recorded into the data sheets, interpreted and analysed using the theory of speech acts proposed by Searle. he process of teaching learning. The writer compared the data of this research to the related theory. The writer checked the data of speaker utterances based on the directive speech acts theory of Searle. The writer findings show that there were four kinds of speech acts performed by the teacher, namely, directives, representatives, expressive and commissives. The most frequently used speech acts were directives (46.43%), while the least frequent speech acts went to declarative (0.00%). It is because declarative perfome if the speaker has to have a special institutional role. Directives was mostly dominant used by English teacher in teaching learning process. The teacher’s use of asking allowed the students to participate more actively in the lesson. By giving the question, the teacher can know whether the students understand or not about the lessons learned. Meanwhile, asking was employed to check the students‟ background knowledge. | en_US |
