Teachers and Students' Illocutionary Act in Bahasa Indonesia Subject

Abstract

This research describes the students' and teachers' illocutionary act in learning Indonesian at state senior high school number 1 of Payakumbuh. The object of the research was the students and teachers at SMAN 1 of Payakumbuh for Bahasa Indonesia subject. The research applied qualitative descriptive method in collecting and analyzing the data. The research shows that the illocutionary acts of students' of 11^th grade and teacher's for Bahasa Indonesia subject acquired 61 speech acts, which are (1) 18 assertive, (2) 2 explanatory assertive, (3) 2 reporting assertive speech, (4) 21 directive utterance commanded which is consisted of 17 teacher’s utterances and 4 student’s utterances, (5) 4 directive requests begging, (6) 3 directive of advice, (7)) 2 directive reminding, (8 ) 2 directive asked for something (9) 6 accused expressive. (10) 4 expressive complained, and (11) 1 commissive promissing. In conclusion, most of illocutionary acts used towards teacher and the students at 11^th grade for Bahasa Indonesia subject in SMAN 1 Payakumbuh was directive speech act. The rarely used speech act was commissive.