ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ELECTION NIGHT SPEECH

The research design of this study is descriptive qualitative. The data sources of this research are “Transcript of President Obama’s Election Night Speech” which is taken from the internet. The transcript is written by Federal News Service. This paper merely focuses on analyzing the most dominant types of Speech Actss on Transcript of President Obama’s Election Night Speech. This Transcript File of Federal News Service is analyzed by the perspective of Searl’s theory. From the analysis of audio file entitled “Transcript of President Obama’s Election Night Speech” it can be found four types of Searle’s illocutionary actss: Directive, commisive, representative and expressive. There are 33 data of illocutionary actss which consist of : 3 data are the type of Directive: 3 data showing request, 12 data of the type of Commisive: ten data is showing a promising and 2 data showing offering,11 data of the type of Representative: 7 data showing of asserting, 1data showing of concluding, and 1 data showing describing. 8 data of the type of Expressive: 7 data showing the thanking and 1 data showing apologizing. From the classification of the data, it can be seen clearly that the type of commisive is the most dominant. This was used since the President as a speaker want to declare the promising about future America during the reign in front of American people.

Using Podcasts to Improve Second Language Comprehension in Iranian Language Classrooms

<p>The present study aims at investigating the influence of podcasts (POD) on language comprehension of Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners. An Oxford Placement Test (OPT) was administered to 60 male and female university students. The participants were considered as pre-intermediate learners and were divided into two groups (one experimental group and one control group). During the fifteen sessions of the treatment, thirty podcasts were presented to the two groups. The experimental group received just the audio file of the POD, and the control group received a different treatment which was the transcript file of the same audio podcast file of the experimental group. The results of the t-tests revealed that there was no significant difference in language comprehension scores across the posttest between two groups. Based on the interview results after the post-test, all of the participants (100%) agreed that both audio and the transcripts (written texts) were useful for them and claimed that it is a good method of improving language comprehension.</p>