Exploring The Use Of Speech Acts In Junior High School Students’ English Learning Interaction

APRILYA, ADILAH (2025) Exploring The Use Of Speech Acts In Junior High School Students’ English Learning Interaction. Undergraduate Thesis thesis, UIN K. H. Abdurrahman Wahid Pekalongan.

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Abstract

Speech acts are one of the important components that play a role in learning. One of them is to encourage students' participation in class. This study analyzes the use of speech by teachers and the challenges faced in using it to encourage students' participation. This study is based on several theories, which includes speech acts theory by Searle (1979), students' participation theory by Muller-Khun et al. (2021), sociolinguistics theory by Holmes (2013), the theory of conversational inference by Gumperz (1982), and the theory of Communicative competence by Canale & Swain (1980). The study was conducted using a qualitative method with a case study approach. Data were collected through observations conducted in 7th grade with 32 students and through semi-structured interviews with a 7th grade English teacher. Then, the data was analyzed using thematic analysis. This study found that in encouraging student participation in class, the teacher used four types of speech acts, namely directives for classroom management, expressives to express teacher’s feelings, representatives to convey information about learning, and declarations to state a condition and give consequences. In addition, two challenges were also found in its use, namely language barriers and student understanding, as well as differences in student ability levels.

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