Speech Acts Used by English Tutors in an English Course: From Greetings to Threats
Diah Ratnawati
Graduate School of Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya
Abstract
This research described teaching and learning interactions in an English Course in Surabaya. Using recorded conversations among teachers and students in that course as data, speech act patterns used by the English Tutors are analyzed from the perspective of speech act approach. It turned out that the researcher could classify the recording of the English into 17 Illocutionary Functions from Illocutionary Acts of Austin Taxonomy, Searle Taxonomy, and Spratt Classroom Language or Discourse. Those are Greeting, Welcoming, Describing, Recommending, Emphasizing, Asking, Correcting, Affirming, Guaranteeing, Thanking, Answering, Offering, Planning, Announcing, Inviting, Predicting, and Threatening. The researcher could recommend just about everything other than Threatening. Anything related to it and the kinds, e.g. negative feedback and negative reinforcement bring more harm than good in teaching and learning process. It inhibits the second language learning and acquisition.
Keywords: speech act
Topic: International Conference of English Language Teaching, Literature & Linguistics