h. Motivating students
Motivating students is one of important thing that a good teacher must have. Students need to be always motivated and
encouraged in order to keep their spirit of learning and give them confidence. Motivation is somehow something that can make a
change and it is really a big deal.
i. Not trusting students’ evaluation
Students’ evaluation somehow is not always a big deal. Good teachers do not judge the students by the evaluation. This is
because students can always improve and the evaluation may always change.
j. Listening to students
Listening to the students is also one of important things that good teachers must have. Students need to be listened to. Good
teachers do not do things just as what they want to. They consider what their students say.
6. Relevant Studies
There are some studies that also investigate speech acts. Two of them is reviewed as follows. The first study is conducted by Rois
2012 which is entitled A Pragmatic Analysis of Speech Acts of The Main Character in Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson. In this research, she
focuses on the speech acts of Dan Dunn, the main character of Half
Nelson movie. This is different from the recent research the researcher conducts which puts the same focus, speech acts, but different source.
The recent research takes Active level 2 book as the source of the data. Rois 2012 chooses the movie for the reason that the main character has
two unique roles at the same time, as a teacher and as a drug addicted. Rois 2012 aims to find how Dan Dunn cope with his life with those
two contrast roles in life inside the school and outside the school. Based on the research, inside the class, Dunn does mostly declarative types of
locutionary acts, up to 90 times rather than interrogative and imperative ones. In term of illocutionary acts, there are 60 directive acts as the most
frequently occur on his utterances, and getting hearer to do something up to 60 times in term of perlocutionary act. Meanwhile, outside the
class, Dunn does 114 declarative locutionary act, 60 assertive illocutionary act as the most act, and getting hearer to know up to 60
times in term of perlocutionary act. The second study is conducted by Indah Rukmanasari in
2012. She investigated speech acts of the main character in Date Night movie. She was interested in taking the movie as the data source because
the story is interesting. It tells about an ordinary man who got a terrible problem with a gangster and therefore he solves the problem by using
speech acts. This study aimed at identifying and describing the kinds of speech acts specifically in the illocutionary acts and the kinds of
conversational implicatures. Based on the research, there are four kinds of illocutionary acts of the main character. They are representatives,
directives, commissives, and expressives. In term of conversational implicatures, there are two kinds found in the research. They are
generalized conversational
implicature and
particularized conversational implicature.
B. Conceptual Framework and Analytical Construct
This research employs Austin’s three dimensions of speech acts which are locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and perlocutionary acts
and the classifications of them. The classification of illocutionary acts includes declarative, representative, directive, commissive, and expressive.
In short, the framework of this research is as follows.
