ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN TURKISH EFL HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS /
Yılmaz, Rabia
ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN TURKISH EFL HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS / RABIA YILMAZ; SUPERVISOR: ASSOC. PROF. DR. BEHBOOD MUHAMMADZADEH - 66 sheets; 31 cm. Includes CD
Thesis (MA) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research English Language Teaching Department
Includes bibliography (sheets 61-66)
ABSTRACT
The study in your hand was carried out by analyzing speech acts in conversational
dialogues in Turkish EFL high school textbooks. Its primary purpose is to provide
theoretical data on the effective use of the concept of speech act, which is the basic
unit of communicative, operational, and situational approaches, which has been used
significantly in English second language teaching books since the 1980s, with a
systematic approach and effective in teaching English as a foreign language. The thesis
consists of a total of 5 chapters. In the first chapter, general information about the idea
is given. These are the background of the study, the problem situation, the aim of the
study, the research questions, the importance of the study, and the study’s limitations.
The second part includes the concepts related to the study survey. These are the
definition of textbooks and types of textbooks, the importance of textbooks in foreign
language classes, the adverse effects of using textbooks, the importance of evaluating
textbooks, speech acts, and types of speech acts. The research model, data source, data
collection, and data analysis are included in the third section. In the fourth chapter, six
research questions were answered. Searle's speech act classification, explanations of
five speech act types, and then speech act sentences which analysed in Turkish EFL
high school textbooks, and the speech act sentences where 9th grade, 10th grade and
11th-grade books are given in the tables. Six research questions were answered. Then,
in the fourth chapter, the frequency and percentage of speech act usage in these books
are shown in tables and figures. Chapter 5 contains the conclusion and
recommendations for future research. The finding of the study revealed that the
expressive speech acts, directive speech acts, representative speech acts, and
commissive speech acts were used in conversational dialogues in high school
textbooks in Turkey. Of the five speech act types, only declarations speech acts did
not appear in the three high school textbooks. Our analysis showed that the most used
speech act was the directive speech act, with 67 uses in the 9th-grade textbook, 47 uses
in the 10th-grade textbook, and 62 in the conversational dialogues in the 11th-grade
textbook, with a total of 176 uses.
Keywords: Speech Acts, Textbooks Evaluation, Turkish EFL High School
Textbooks.
Speech acts (Linguistics)--Dissertations, Academic
Textbooks--Dissertations, Academic
English language--Dissertations, Academic
ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ACTS IN TURKISH EFL HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS / RABIA YILMAZ; SUPERVISOR: ASSOC. PROF. DR. BEHBOOD MUHAMMADZADEH - 66 sheets; 31 cm. Includes CD
Thesis (MA) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research English Language Teaching Department
Includes bibliography (sheets 61-66)
ABSTRACT
The study in your hand was carried out by analyzing speech acts in conversational
dialogues in Turkish EFL high school textbooks. Its primary purpose is to provide
theoretical data on the effective use of the concept of speech act, which is the basic
unit of communicative, operational, and situational approaches, which has been used
significantly in English second language teaching books since the 1980s, with a
systematic approach and effective in teaching English as a foreign language. The thesis
consists of a total of 5 chapters. In the first chapter, general information about the idea
is given. These are the background of the study, the problem situation, the aim of the
study, the research questions, the importance of the study, and the study’s limitations.
The second part includes the concepts related to the study survey. These are the
definition of textbooks and types of textbooks, the importance of textbooks in foreign
language classes, the adverse effects of using textbooks, the importance of evaluating
textbooks, speech acts, and types of speech acts. The research model, data source, data
collection, and data analysis are included in the third section. In the fourth chapter, six
research questions were answered. Searle's speech act classification, explanations of
five speech act types, and then speech act sentences which analysed in Turkish EFL
high school textbooks, and the speech act sentences where 9th grade, 10th grade and
11th-grade books are given in the tables. Six research questions were answered. Then,
in the fourth chapter, the frequency and percentage of speech act usage in these books
are shown in tables and figures. Chapter 5 contains the conclusion and
recommendations for future research. The finding of the study revealed that the
expressive speech acts, directive speech acts, representative speech acts, and
commissive speech acts were used in conversational dialogues in high school
textbooks in Turkey. Of the five speech act types, only declarations speech acts did
not appear in the three high school textbooks. Our analysis showed that the most used
speech act was the directive speech act, with 67 uses in the 9th-grade textbook, 47 uses
in the 10th-grade textbook, and 62 in the conversational dialogues in the 11th-grade
textbook, with a total of 176 uses.
Keywords: Speech Acts, Textbooks Evaluation, Turkish EFL High School
Textbooks.
Speech acts (Linguistics)--Dissertations, Academic
Textbooks--Dissertations, Academic
English language--Dissertations, Academic