摘要：The fourth semester students of the English department of Muria Kudus University are suggested to take Academic Field Trip in order to provide the students some experiences outside of their campus.By observing the English Department students' interactions with English speakers from other countries,I expect that I can gain clear illustrations on their abilities in maintaining good conversation by applying appropriate speech functions in the conversation.The main purposes of the study are describing the speech functions chosen by the students and the foreigners,explaining the role relation enactment among them,and also describing the contribution of speech functions in language education.The data of this study are transcriptions of the students and the foreigner's oral communication.I classify the speech functions produced by the participants into the speech functions classes introduced by Eggins and Slade.The results of the study over the four conversations show that the opening speech functions are produced mostly by the students;it indicates that the students play as the initiators.The foreigners show their respect and appreciation to the students as they respond to the student initiations by producing more responding and continuing moves.The number of turns and moves produced by the students and foreigners are quite similar;it indicates that both of the participants get the same chance to take their roles.The foreigners as tourists show they interest to some tourism objects by describing to the students some objects they have visited and by comparing to their own country.Learning language cannot be separated from its culture,therefore speech functions and cultural understanding should be taught in the classroom as part of language discourse.
