Speech Acts in a Story for Learning English: Case of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Amirudin , Margana

2018

Abstract

Youtube is one of the beneficial media that can be empowered as a language learning medium in this 21st century. It provides various kinds of channels for learning English through videos. This paper explored the speech acts performed in a story taken from a channel standing for learning English through stories on Youtube. This story is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. The functions of speech acts found in this chosen story were identified using Padan method and classified based on the forms of speech acts as proposed by (Austin, 1962).The factors were described based on the context espousing the utterances showed in the story. Finally, this paper proffers pedagogical implication for English language teaching and learning process, in case of constructing and deconstructing texts (written or spoken) in which these are considered very beneficial for second or foreign language learners: to communicate appropriately in real-life contexts. This paper is also expected to be beneficial for English language teachers and material developers, to provide proper material to be used in the classroom.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

A. and M. (2018). Speech Acts in a Story for Learning English: Case of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. In Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC, ISBN 978-989-758-416-9, pages 192-200. DOI: 10.5220/0008215600002284

in Bibtex Style

@conference{beltic18,
author={Amirudin and Margana },
title={Speech Acts in a Story for Learning English: Case of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,},
year={2018},
pages={192-200},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008215600002284},
isbn={978-989-758-416-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st Bandung English Language Teaching International Conference - Volume 1: BELTIC,
TI - Speech Acts in a Story for Learning English: Case of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
SN - 978-989-758-416-9
AU - A.
AU - M.
PY - 2018
SP - 192
EP - 200
DO - 10.5220/0008215600002284