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Of Speech Act Theory and Its Application in English Teaching Paper Keywords: speech act theory; speech act groups; English Teaching Abstract: This paper describes the development of speech act theory and to clarify the theory to the importance of teaching English, and how to apply the theory to explore teaching English to teaching in English speaking guide significance. I. Introduction JL Austin (1962) and John R. Searle (1969) speech act theory major departure from the social function of language to study how people use language to express illocutionary force (illocutionary force) to implement a variety of illocutionary act, that is, words and deeds do . Later, Cohen and Olsh-tain (1983) proposed set of speech acts (speech act set) but also adds to this theory. This article is from the perspective of foreign language teaching, speech act theory to explore the importance of teaching English and The theory of English teaching activities in the implementation, in order to bring to the theoretical guidance for oral English teaching and practice. Second, speech act theory and its development Speech act theory was originally developed by British philosopher J. L. Austin (1962) put forward. According to his theory, a person talking, in most cases, while the implementation of the three acts: locutionary act (locutionary act), illocutionary acts (illocutionary act), and perlocutionary act (perlocutionary act). Made the act refers to “speak” the act itself, refers to a voice, syllables, say words, phrases and sentences, etc.; illocutionary act is through the “talking” to implement this action by an act involving the speaker’s intentions, such as promise, thanks to warnings; perlocutionary act the consequences of speaking, such as making the listener excited, be warned, receive advice and so on. Among them, the illocutionary act, the intention of the speaker due to be pragmatic about the academic research priorities. to determine the number of illocut