An Analysis of Illocutionary Act Made by the Main Character of Super 8 Movie and Its Application in Teaching Speaking to Eleventh Grade Students of Senior High School

Abstract

This study is aimed at finding out illocutionary act made by the main character of Super 8 movie and its
application in teaching speaking to eleventh grade students of senior high school. This study uses
speaking and the part descriptive research. The data collected by documentation. The primary data is
taken from the Super 8 movie as the main source data. The secondary data is analyzed the spoken and
gesture of main Super 8 movie. The procedure of analyzing the data begins by analyzing the types of
illocutionary acts of main character utterance’s. The researcher find there are four types of
illocutionary acts made by main character in Super 8 movie. Those are representative 28 utterances
(33.7%), commisive 14 utterances (16.9%), directive 21 utterances (25.3%), expressive 20 utterances
(24.1%). The application of the result, it is focused on teaching of speech materials in senior high
school.