Teacher’s Expressive Speech Acts in Learning Bahasa Indonesia Class XI at SMA 1 Luhak Nan Duo

The objectives of this study are threefold. First, describe the forms of expressive speech acts used by Indonesian language teachers in the teaching and learning process in class XI SMA Luhak Nan Duo. Second, describe the strategies of the Indonesian language teachers in the teaching and learning process in class XI SMA 1 Luhak Nan Duo. The data in this study were sentences in the form of expressive speech act forms and strategies for the Indonesian language teacher class XI SMA 1 Luhak Nan Duo in the teaching and learning process. The data source of this research is the entire utterances of an Indonesian language teacher during the teaching and learning process from the beginning to the end of the lesson. The research instrument is the author himself. The results of this study are twofold. First, there are five forms of expressive speech acts of teachers in learning Indonesian language at SMA N 1 Luhak Nan Duo, (1) expressive speech acts praising, (2) expressive speech acts saying thank you, (3) expressive speech acts criticizing, (4) blaming expressive speech acts, and (5) expressive speech acts of apologizing. Second, there are four teacher speaking strategies in learning Indonesian for class XI in high school, (1) the strategy to speak frankly without further ado, (2) the strategy to speak frankly with positive politeness, (3) the strategy to speak candidly with negative politeness pleasantries, and (4) obscure narrative strategies. (4) blaming expressive speech acts, and (5) expressive speech acts apologizing.