ANALYSIS ON DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS OF TRAINEE TEACHERS IN CLASSROOM COMMUNICATION

During teaching and learning process, a variety of speech acts are applied by trainee teachers to deliver the content of a subject. Directive Speech Act is among the commonly used mean by trainee teachers in the teaching process. The application of directive speech act is to get listeners to carry out an instruction. Thus, this study examines the forms of directive speech act among Malaysian Teachers Education Institute or IPGM (Institut Pendidikan Guru Malaysia) trainee teachers in classroom communication during Malay language subject. This qualitative study had applied recording technique as its research instrument. The respondent of this research are tree final year trainee teachers from IPGM. The Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts Theory by Bach and Harnish (1979) was applied to analize Directive Speech Acts of those three teachers that had been verbatim transcribed. This study shows that the respondents’ directive utterance comprises subcategories of directive speech acts. The subcategories found are requests, questions, requirements, prohibitions, permission and advises. The study also found that, in the subcategory of directive speech acts, directive utterance in the form of requirement, specifically in the form of instructional sentences were predominantly used by the respondents. This is because the requirement directives highlighted the authority and firmness of its speaker. In conclusion, the study shows that IPGM trainee teachers possess pragmatic competency in classroom communication, particularly when instructing their students.