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No. Classification of Searle’sSpeech Acts The Illocutionary Act Illocutionary Force Frequency Percentage 1. Representatives 1. Confirming 2. Correcting 3. Agreeing 4. Explaining 5. Disagreeing 6. Informing 7. Stating 8. Predicting 49 11 8 36 1 43 31 1 27.22 6.11 4.44 20.00 0.56 23.89 17.22 0.56 Total 180 25.68 2. Directives 1. Reminding 2. Warning 3. Suggesting 4. Requesting 5. Asking 6. Ordering 4 4 5 4 286 137 0.91 0.91 1.14 0.91 65.00 31.14 Total 440 62.77 3. Expressives 1. Stating anger 2. Stating annoyance 3. Stating disappointment 4. Apologizing 5. Leave-taking 6. Stating pleasure 7. Wishing 8. Greeting 9. Thanking 10. Complimenting 11. Stating surprise 2 1 4 5 2 3 1 4 5 42 5 2.70 1.35 5.40 6.76 2.70 4.05 1.35 5.40 6.76 56.76 6.76 Total 74 10.56 4. Commissives 1. Granting 2. Promising 3. Offering 1 2 4 14.29 28.57 57.14 Total 7 0.99 Total of illocutionary act occurences 701 100 Table 4.1 shows that there are four types of Searle’s speech acts employed by the teacher of grade X SMA N 1 Purworejo during the English teaching and learning process. They were representatives, directives, expressives, and commisiveswhereas declarations were not utilized by the teacher. Furthermore, the table points out that the most dominant speech acts used by the teacher was directives with 440 instances which represent 62.77 out of the total number of utterances. Representative speech acts occupied the second place among the other types. They appeared in 180 utterances representing 25.68 out of the total utterances. The occurrence of expressives was revealed in 74 instances with the percentage of10.56 out of the whole speech acts. Meanwhile, the least speech acts produced by the teacher during the process of English teaching and learning were commisives. They were revealed only in 7 utterances with 0.99 out of the total utterances. Throughout the analysis of the data, there were no instances of declarations produced by the teacher. Concerning the illocutionary forces within the representative speech acts, the table shows that the teacher performed confirming, correcting, agreeing, explaining, disagreeing, informing, stating and predicting. Based on the level of occurrence, the most frequently used representatives were confirming with 49 utterances 27.22. The second place was occupied by informing with 43 instances 23.89.