motivating students, not trusting students’ evaluation, and listening to students.
The Dead Poets Society movie shows that Mr. Keating has some of a good teacher’s characteristics stated in the previous paragraph that make
him different from other teachers. Mr. Keating often brings his students to study outside the class and even uses no books. Here is one of the
differences between his teaching method and other teachers’. This method then fits the students. There are many more that Mr. Keating does as a good
teacher. It is then expected that this movie can be one of references for teachers to teach and learn through this movie as movies somehow can be
the representation of real life.
B. Focus of the research
The focus of the research is upon what Mr. Keating is like as a good teacher which reflected from the speech acts. Some questions formulated to
investigate are as follows. 1.
What are the illocutionary acts of Mr. Keating’s utterances when teaching in the Dead Poets Society?
2. What are the perlocutionary acts of Mr. Keating’s utterances when
teaching in the Dead Poets Society? 3.
What does Mr. Keating commonly do as a good teacher when teaching as reflected in the speech acts?
C. Limitation of the Problems
This study does not investigate all language aspects of the movie. The aspects investigated in the study are the pragmatic side in terms
of speech acts in order to investigate what Mr. Keating is like as a good teacher in the Dead Poets Society.
D. Objectives of the Research
Based on the formulated problems and the limitation, the objectives of this research are as follows:
1. to identify the illocutionary acts of Mr. Keating’s utterances when
teaching in the Dead Poets Society 2.
to identify the perlocutionary acts of Mr. Keating’s utterances when teaching in the Dead Poets Society
3. to investigate what Mr. Keating commonly does as a good teacher when
teaching as reflected in the speech acts
E. Significance of The Research
Theoretically, it is expected that the result of this research could enrich the knowledge in pragmatic analysis in term of speech acts.
Practically, there are some advantages to some parties as follows: 1.
to English Department students, the result of this research is expected to facilitate them to gain better understanding related to speech acts
2. to other researchers, this research is expected to provide reference and
evidences to guide them to conduct a further research which is related to pragmatic analysis especially in term of speech acts
3. to teachers and or teachers candidate, it is expected that the result of
this research can be the reference to be more creative in teaching including the method, the activities, and the way to communicate to
students.
CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
