A SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS ON CODE SWITCHING PRACTICED BY ENGLISH TEACHER OF MTs NEGERI 1 YOGYAKARTA

Abstrak / Ringkasan

This study was aimed at identifying the functions of the illocutionary acts spoken by the English teacher and to describe the effects of the speech acts used by the English teacher toward the students’ behavior.
This research was designed as a descriptive qualitative research which was combined with the quantitative one. The quantitative data were used to reveal the frequency of the types of speech acts. The object of this research was the English teacher’s utterances in MTs Negeri 1 Yogyakarta. The data were in the form of scripts of English teacher’s utterances in the classroom which contained codeswitching. Then, the data were analyzed based on Searle’s classification of speech acts and Austin’s classification of perlocutionary acts. In this research, the researcher was the primary instrument.
The results of this research showed that there were five functions of the illocutionary acts spoken by the English teacher and six perlocutionary acts used by the English teacher toward students’ behavior in English classroom of MTs Negeri 1 Yogyakarta. Those functions of illocutionary acts were assertives (44.1%), directives (51.6%), commisives (2.1%), expressive (1.1%), and declaratives (1.1%). Then, the perlocutionary acts were to convince the hearer (27.8%), to surprise the hearer (2.6%), to alarm the hearer (0.6%), to enlighten the hearer (16.5%), to make the hearer do something (32.9%), and to make the hearer realize something (19.6%). In conclusion, the English teacher of MTs Negeri 1 Yogyakarta usually used directive functions when she conducted code-switching in teaching English.

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