Papers by Mohamad Taufik Hidayat
Students are frequently not given the background of the pragmatic knowledge to understand the lan... more Students are frequently not given the background of the pragmatic knowledge to understand the language in their learning activities. Students tend to have difficulty to understand the intended meanings carried by speech acts. This problem then lead the researchers to do study which aim is to find out the kinds of speech acts employed in the speech of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and to describe the applications of speech acts from the speech in teaching speaking. By classifying the kinds of speech acts proposed by Searle, the study shows that 115 data of speech acts found including assertives (65.21%), expressives (6.96%), directives (25.21%), commissives (1.74%), and declaratives (0.86%). Some of the speech acts categories found can be applied in teaching speaking by using them as the teaching materials. In this study, congratulating illocutionary forces of expressives are and can be applied for senior high school students in grade X semester 1.
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Papers by Mohamad Taufik Hidayat