@thesis{thesis, author={Khoirunnisa Wulan Junaidi and Kurniawan S.S.}, title ={AN ANALYSIS OF REPRESENTATIVE SPEECH ACTS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS ON THE SPEAKING CLASS OF THE THIRD SEMESTER IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF IAIN SURAKARTA}, year={2017}, url={http://eprints.iain-surakarta.ac.id/660/}, abstract={Key words: Speech Acts, Teaching and Learning Process The purpose of this research are to identify the types of representative speech acts uttered by the lecturer on the speaking class of the third semester in English department of IAIN Surakarta of the basis of Searle and Yule‟s theory. This research was descriptive qualitative. The objects of this research were the utterances uttered by the lecturer on the speaking class of the third semester in English Department of IAIN Surakarta. The data were in the form of word, phrases and utterances employed by the lecturer. The data were obtained through conducting observation accompanied by audio recording. The research findings show that there were 14 types of representative speech acts performed by the lecturer on the speaking class of the third semester in English department of IAIN Surakarta, namely affirming (29 data), asserting (89 data), assuring (19 data), blaming (12 data), boasting (2 data), criticizing (16 data), explaining (20 data), guessing (10 data), informing (36 data), notifying (195 data), praising (25 data), rebut (1 datum), stating (60 data), suggesting (31 data). The most frequently used by the lecturer of representative speech acts was notifying (35.80%), while the last frequent was rebut (0.20%).} }