Directive Illocutionary Act of Male and Female English Teacher at Junior High School

This study deals with Directive Illocutionary Act of male and female English Teacher in Smp Ad-Durrah Medan. The objectives of this study are 1) to investigate the types of directive illocutionary act of male and female English Teachers at Smp Ad-Durrah Medan, 2) to describe the realization of directive illocutionary act of male and female English teachers at SMP Ad-Durrah Medan, and 3) to explain the reason of directive illocutionary act of male and female English teachers at SMP Ad-Durrah Medan. This study applied qualitative descriptive method. The techniques for collecting data are through applying observation by taking eight meetings for male and female English teachers to get types, realization, and reason of directive illocutionary act by male and female English teachers at Smp Ad-Durrah Medan. The results of this study found that there were nine types of directive illocutionary act used by male and female English teachers, where command is the most dominant for male (21.62%) and female (21.73 %) while Questioning was the lowest type of directive illocutionary act used by male and female English teacher, male (2. 70 %) and female (4.34%). In this study there was a new type found of directive illocutionary act, namely a statement where this type was a new type found for male 8.10% ) and female (8.69%), both of male and female used this type. For the realization of directive illocutionary act realized from the collaborative, competitive, conflictive , and convivial, where one of the realization was showed that the teacher makes a group discussion for doing the task and the teachers help the students by making a discussion for each student, making a collaboration for their task related to the content of their lesson and presenting the discussion in the class. There were found four reasons of directive illocutionary act by male and female English teachers where the reason showed from four reason, it could be seen from the realization or the process of teaching- learning process that the male teacher is higher using directive illocutionary act than female English teachers, where it could be seen from each type of directive illocutionary act used by male and female English teachers.