THE ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS USED BY AN ENGLISH LECTURER IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS AT THE ENGLISH STUDY PROGRAM OF NUSA CENDANA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This research is conducted to find out the types of illocutionary acts used by an English Study Program lecturer of Nusa Cendana University in the teaching and learning process and the mostly used types of illocutionary acts by an English Study Program lecturer of Nusa Cendana University in teaching and learning process. The subject of the research is a professor whose expertise is to teach a Listening class. The lecturer is one of the popular educators in the English Study Program who is famous for his interactive teaching in his English Classes. The researcher used the descriptive qualitative method in this research. The teaching and learning processes for several meetings were recorded and transcribed. From the data analysis, the researcher found that there were four types of illocutionary acts performed by the lecturer, namely directive, representative, commissive, and expressive. The lecturer used 174 utterances of types of illocutionary acts. From 174 utterances, directive was used 128 times (73%), representatives were used 27 times (16%), expressive was used 17 times (10%), and commissive were used 2 times (1%). Among the percentage result from the four types of illocutionary acts performed by the lecturer in the teaching and learning process, it showed that directives were the most frequently illocutionary acts used by an English lecturer in the teaching and learning process.