HRMARS - Communication is very important to all genres of society that require skills to communicate, especially in today's advanced media. Likewise with emotions which refer to a specific feeling and thought, and involve biology and psychology and lead to a tendency to act. Emotions are also basically driven by the power of the mind and can form self-awareness or sanity and the ability to know and understand the relationship between each other through communication. This study was carried out at Sekolah Kebangsaan Saint Michael Entingan to identify the types of speech acts used by preschool children when they interact with teachers and peers in preschool classes. Through communication and various emotions through language acquisition and language development of children at the age of 6 years. The data collected involved video recordings while preschool children were learning, carrying out activities, playing and interacting with teachers and peers. Through observation, interview, questionnaire, document study, before and after intervention methods were used to conduct this study, it was found that preschool children use certain speech acts in communication in the current classroom. Meanwhile, the most frequently used speech acts by preschoolers are assertive speech acts 75% and directive speech acts 25%.The ability to use assertive and directive speech behaviors explains that preschool children can expand their communication language widely, even though they have emotions and behaviors that are stressed in a slow context, they are able to master teaching and learning in depth.
Bujang et al. (Wed,) studied this question.