One of the factors affecting language teaching and learning is the way how the
communication process between teacher and learners takes place in the classroom. In a
language instructional context, the teacher's language serves several functions:
transactional, interactional, regulatory, as a language model, and linguistic input. These
multiple functions give rise to the performance of varied speech acts. This paper tries to
reveal the variety of assertive acts and how they are performed by the teachers. After the …