ILLOCUTIONARY SPEECH ACTS OF PPG STUDENT IN FRENCH LANGUAGE LEARNING AT HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

This study aims to describe the forms of illocutionary speech acts used by PPG student during French language learning in high school. The theory used in this research is Searle's speech act theory. The qualitative descriptive method describes data in the form of illocutionary speech acts in French language learning activities. The subjects of this research were PPG student of Pendidikan Bahasa Prancis of Universitas Negeri Semarang. The data for this research are the utterances of PPG student classified as illocutionary speech acts during the teaching process. Data collection in this research used the listening method and note-taking techniques. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis techniques through the following procedures: (1) data reduction, which involved observing and classifying data (2) data presentation, which included organizing data results in tables; and (3) data conclusion. According to the research findings, the students used five types of speech acts in the French language learning process: assertive, directive, commissive, expressive and declarative illocutionary speech acts. Based on the findings of this study, directive illocutionary speech acts are the most prevalent in learning French, followed by expressive, assertive, commissive, and declarative illocutionary speech acts, which are the least common.