The Lecturers’ Speech Act on Online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic at PGRI Wiranegara University

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the teaching and learning activities in the conventional classes of face to face to be limited. Online learning is offered as one of the best options to deal with the current situation. In online learning, lecturers undoubtedly play an important role; thus, lecturers must commit to being more interactive in the online classes for achieving higher learning outcomes. Communication is essential to make online teaching and learning effectively in forms of the lecturers' appropriate speech acts based on the learning context, the theme, and the social and psychological relationship between lecturers and students. Therefore, the current research aimed at obtaining an accurate description of the speech acts delivered by lecturers on online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic at PGRI Wiranegara University. This research was designed as a descriptive qualitative. The data of this research were taken from the lecturers' utterances and their contexts. The data was from the lecturers of Civic Education (PPKn) Study Program at UNIWARA in the academic year 2019/2020. Data collection employed "observe, listen, and note" technique. At the same time, the main instrument in this study was the researchers themselves. The analysis was done through (1) data reduction, (2) data presentation, (3) data verification, and (4) data conclusion. This research revealed that the lecturers' speech acts were in the forms of signs, elicit act, informative act, accepting act, replying act, commenting act, and functions toward the lecturers' speech acts in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic at UNIWARA. Keyword: speech act, lecturer, online learning, speech event