INVESTIGATING SPEECH ACTS IN SELECTED DIALOGUES CONCERNING MULTICULTURAL VALUES IN THE INDONESIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATIONAL & CULTURE-ENDORSED HIGH SCHOOL EFL TEXTBOOK: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Abstract

This paper is a discourse analysis that aims at investigating speech acts in a selected dialogues concerning multicultural values in the Indonesian Ministry of Educational & Culture-endorsed high school EFL textbook (twelfth grade). Speech acts theory was employed in processing the analysis of dialogues. The intended features were identified, classified, calculated and separately analyzed based on five major speech acts developed by Searle (1976). The findings revealed that 51% utterances includes in assertive category, expressive category is 29%, while directive and commissive category have the same results 10% and declarative category does not have any outcome (0%). In addition, the multicultural values presentation in the Indonesian Ministry of Educational and Culture-Endorsed High School EFL Textbook (twelfth grade) 2018 revision through dialogue has proved to be lacked. Based on this findings, it is recommended to investigate how the multicultural values are presented in the newest edition of textbooks and to cultivate the multicultural values using another methodology or the future researchers can use gender as the subject of the study. Keywords: EFL Textbook, Culture, Speech Acts