52 Generally, the theories which are used in daily conversation it can be also applied
in public speaking, hot seat, and debate class. Speech acts, nowadays, is somehow an issue to go unnoticed. English
learners, indeed, need to acquire pragmatics competence and teachers can function as proponents to get their students apply speech acts through language. In
accordance with teaching and learning, speech acts should be considered as a substantial strategy to develop our conversation in our daily activities. Besides,
language as a motivation especially acts of sign, persuading, and refusing which are related to speakers’ intentions. Speech acts theory can be used in speaking
class and micro teaching. In fact, applying speech acts especially the terms and the type of illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts during teaching process in the
classroom can definitely be a wake-up call for the students. Teachers can motivate the students with some statements in the class. It can be used as a games, and also
make the situation in the class interesting for students.
C. Suggestions
Hereafter, the writer would like to give suggestions regarding the study. The suggestions are addressed to future researchers and language learners. Thus,
they will be able to obtain the benefits from this study.
1. For Future Researchers
This study will provide useful information and enrich readers’ knowledge of pragmatics in relation to utterances based on the maxims of conversation for its
53 researchers. Thus, researchers are capable of applying a good concept of
communication. The writer would like to present the first suggestion to future researchers
to conduct other researches regarding utterances based on maxims of conversation and speech acts as this study is simple and limited. It is expected that future
researchers can create interesting data and make more specific analyses about speech acts especially the terms related to the cooperative principle. Therefore, it
may be highly beneficial to conduct another pragmatics study especially speech acts related to cooperative principle specifically based on interesting data. Also,
future researchers can use other theories to support their studies.
2. For Language Learners
The writer encourages students who learn English as a second language to pay attention to their language use based on the aspects of pragmatics. It will also
help language learners to apply English language proficiency and comprehension appropriately in the context of the English conversation. This study will also help
English learners to be able to apply English expressions in the form of conversations
appropriately in
order to
avoid misinterpretation
or misunderstanding. Sometimes, language learners tend to speak longer and make
the conversation useless and inappropriate. Language learners can apply a better strategy by applying speech acts and using maxims of conversations in which the
speakers attempt to avoid misunderstanding.
