AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHER’S DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS AND STUDENTS’ RESPONSES BY GENDER

Willyana Ramlan SitiZaenab Sanusi
(STKIP Subang, Jawa Barat, Indonesia)

ABSTRACT This study has threefold. First, to analyze the types of directive speech act used by the teacher;second, to investigate male and female students’ responses of the teacher’s directive speech act and third, to find out the reason from male and female students’ responses toward teacher’s directive speech act.The subjects of the study were the teacher and the students at vocational high school in Subang, Jawa Barat, Indonesia. The data for this naturalistic descriptive qualitative study were collected through classroom observation and questionnaire that were then analyzed by following Miles and Huberman’s (1994) interactive cyclical model. The result of this study showsthat there are nine types of directive speech act that used by teacher in the classroom activity, that are types of request, command, order, please, prohibit, invitation, urge, permission and permit. Then, it shows that male students responses toward teacher’s directive speech acts in the classroom activity is 84,3% preferred responses and 15,2% dispreferred responses.It also shows that female students responses toward teacher’s directive speech acts in the classroom activity is 88,1% preferred responses and 11,9% dispreferred responses. The last result is the reason of students’ responses to the teacher’s directive speech act. This result shows that there are many reasons of male and female students’ in conveying preferred and dispreferred responses based on the types od directive speech acts.

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