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
