Abstract
This research discusses about an analysis of the directive speech acts used in english speaking class at the third semester of english speaking class of english study program of IAIN STS Jambi. The aims of this research are to describe the types of directive speech acts and politeness strategies that found in English speaking class. This research used descriptive qualitative method. This method used to describe clearly about the types and politeness strategies of directive speech acts based on the data in English speaking class. The result showed that in English speaking class that there are some types and politeness strategies of directive speech acts, such as: requestives, questions, requirements, prohibitives, permissives, and advisores as types, as well as on-record indirect strategies (prediction statement, strong obligation statement, possibility statement, weaker obligation statement, volitional statement), direct strategies (imperative, performative), and nonsentential strategies as politeness strategies. The achievement of this research are hoped can be additional knowledge about linguistics study, especially in directive speech acts and can be developed for future researches. 
 Key words: directive speech acts, types, politeness strategies.
Highlights
Lingustics is a broad and exciting interdisciplinary field of study
A constative utterance is used to accompalish some expression of a state of affairs which will contrast with the function of a performative which is to be or bring about the state of affairs (Lanigan, 1977: 31)
The main point of this study was to know the types and politeness strategies of directive speech acts used by the lecturer when teaching and learning process in speaking class
Summary
Lingustics is a broad and exciting interdisciplinary field of study. It focuses on language in use, connecting our knowledge about languages with an understanding of how they are used in the real world (Heigham & Croker, 2009; 4). The utterance of human does contain some information, and it has some acts, one of them is marked by the appearance of performative verbs such as command, promise, begging, prohibition, and etc. Performative verb does not always appear explicitly in the utterance, so it needs its context in order to get the aim of meaning (action) that contain in the utterance itself
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