AN ANALYSIS OF CLASSROOM DISCOURSE BASED ON SPEECH ACTS THEORY

Abstract

The paper focuses on expressions from classroom discourse between the teacher and students. The aim of the study is to analyze classroom discourse based on the speech acts theory and the main objective is to identify the various speech acts used in the classroom discourse.The paper adopts speech act theory for the analysis in order to identify the various Speech acts used in the classroom discourse. The study's motive is to trace the causes of students' withdrawal from expression in teaching and learning situation through excessive study and analysis of classroom discourses. It is also a concern of this study to present a systematic blueprint that elaborately showcases the real patterns of classroom discourses and their attributers’ effects in students’ language proficiency. The method employed is ethno-methodology. The paper considers the functions of Searle's (1969) speech acts (Assertive, Directives, Commisives, Expressive, Declarations) in the analysis. The sampled data were obtained from the classroom discourse. Data collection instruments via the talk interaction were used. The result shows that the predominant speech acts that are usually found in classroom discourse are assertives and directives.