An Analysis of Speech Act Used in Teaching EFL; what are the Influences on the Students’ Learning and what are the Effect on Communicative Language Teaching Practices
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32585/ijelle.v7i1.6278Keywords:
speech act, Teaching EFL, Communicative, Language Teaching, influence and EffectAbstract
The primary objective of this research are to investigate the types of speech act used and produced through utterances in teaching process by lecturer in the class, and also need to know the influences of speech acts on students learning. The subject’s research goes to the lecturer and the English students at English department of Education Study Program of universitas Muhammadiyah Makassar. The data collected and analyzed through descriptive qualitative approach. The finding analyzed and displayed qualitatively. The findings showed up only two types of speech act used by lecturer namely; Locutionary act (expressive, directive) and Illocutionary act (assertive, directives, commisives, and expressives . Those are utterances used to function be a statement, command, asking question, and direction. Perlocutionary act itself showed up by students through their responding. The responses from students appeared in verbal by sentence, nonverbal by gestures, and any students gave responses both of them. Students claimed of The impact of the lecturers’ utterances on students’ Learning explained clearly namely can help the students to improve their understanding of implementation language competence, can increase their motivation in learning Pragmatic in English, enhance students to understanding speech act in term pragmatic in their communication, encourage them to imitate and practice speech act in appropriate way in communication and interaction both in the class and beyond the class. Hence, the use of speech act appropriately in teaching truly gave positive effect on communicative language teaching practices.
Downloads
References
Adriyanti, Yulita, Sujariati, and Ismail Sangkala. 2023. “The Teacher’S Speech Acts in Live Streaming Youtube As an English Teaching Media: A Case Study in Smp Unismuh Makassar.” Journal of Computer Interaction in Education6 (1): 35–48. https://doi.org/10.56983/jcie.v6i1.586.
Amanda, Loly Grenia, and Jufrizal. 2024. “Analysis of Speech Acts Components and Types of Illocutionary Act Found in the ‘Mata Najwa’ Talk Show” 13 (1).
Anggraeni, Mayvina Exva, and Intan Sari Ramdhani. 2023. “Aurelia: Jurnal Penelitian Dan Pengabdian Masyarakat Indonesia Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Speech Acts in the Short Story of Aini and Our Play by Hasan Aspahani” 2 (1): 2962–64.
Ar, Nirwana, and Resky Aiman Ananda P. 2024. “Pre-Teacher Student With Problems Of Handling English Teaching Practice In Microteaching Class Activity : Managing Classroom Interaction And Applying Communicative Language Teaching-Based” 6 (3): 648–63.
Brown, Gillian, and George Yule.1985. “Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.” Journal of Linguistics21 (1): 241–45.
Choi, Julie, and David Nunan. 2018. “Language Learning and Activation in and beyond the Classroom.” Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics1 (2): 49–63. https://doi.org/10.29140/ajal.v1n2.34.
Fabbro, Franco, Alice Fabbro, and Cristiano Crescentini. 2022. “The Nature and Function of Languages.” Languages7 (4): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040303.
Fein, Ofer, and Asa Kasher. 1996. “How to Do Things with Words and Gestures in Comics.” Journal of Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(96)00023-9.
Hidayat, Agus. 2016. “Speech Acts: Force Behind Words.” English Education: Jurnal Tadris Bahasa Inggris9 (1): 1–12.
Nunan, David. 2012. “Learner-Centered English Language Education.” Learner-Centered English Language Education. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203096888.
Pranowo, Pranowo. 2020. “The Role of Context in the Interpretation of Pragmatic Meaning.” RETORIKA: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Dan Pengajarannya13 (2): 256–67. https://doi.org/10.26858/retorika.v13i2.12666.
Rismayanti, Hilda. 2021. “The Analysis of Locutionary Act, Illocutionary Act, and Perlocutionary Act in Five Feet Apart Movie.” MEDIOVA: Journal of Islamic Media Studies1 (2): 138–49. https://doi.org/10.32923/medio.v1i2.1915.
Rozelin, Diana, Sukarno, and Muhaimin. 2024. “Psycholinguistics and Metacognition Effect in Verbal Language Communication Ability on Practical Teaching of Physics Education Students.” Ijeltal9 (1): 1–17.Rühlemann, Christoph. 2018. “CL and Pragmatics –an Introduction.” Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429451072-1.
52International Journal of English Linguistics, Literature, and Education (IJELLE)ISSN 2686-0120 (print), 2686-5106 (online)Vol. 7., No. 1, June 2025, pp. 39-52
Sujar et al.(AnAnalysis of Speech Act Used in Teaching EFL...)Searle. 1969. “A Theory of Speech Acts.” Speech Acts, 22–123.Searle, John R. 1979. Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts. Cambridge University Press.
Sujariati, Sujariati, Risman Wanci, and Wiwi Arianti. 2022. “Investigating Learning Strategies of Male and Female Students on Mastering Vocabulary.” Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, no. Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022): 764–72. https://doi.org/10.30605/25409190.449.
Taylor, McComas. 2015. “How to Do Things with Sanskrit: Speech Act Theory and the Oral Performance of Sacred Texts.” Numen62 (5–6): 519–37. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-12341390.
Wanci, Risman. 2024. “Practicality and Validity of the Instructional Speaking Materials Developed Based on CLT” 5 (4): 678–92. https://doi.org/10.46843/jiecr.v5i4.2003.
White, Alan R., J. L. Austin, and J. O. Urmson. 1963. “How to Do Things with Words.” Analysis. https://doi.org/10.2307/3326622.
Witczak-plisiecka, Iwona. 2009. “S Peech a Cts and the a Utonomy Of.” Lodz Papers in Pragmatics1: 85–106
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Sujariati, Rampeng, Ika

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with the International Journal of English Linguistics, Literature, and Education (IJELLE) agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.