Title:
LANGUAGE FUNCTION IN THE CLASSROOM: A CLASSROOM DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Authors:
Adriansyah A. Katili, Kartin Lihawa, Syarifuddin Ahmad and Hasanuddin Fatsah*

Abstract:
This article is aimed at revealing how the teachers and students function language in classroom interaction. The theory applied in the research is classroom speech acts that proposed by Sinclair and Coulthard and developed by Nababan. The setting of research is the classroom interaction at the English Department of the State University of Gorontalo. The participants are the teachers who were teaching in the classroom and the students who were participating in the classroom interaction. The research shows that both the teacher and students performed directive, elicitation, informative. The acts performed the teachers only were checking and empowerment. The other phenomenon of classroom speech act that is not discussed by Sinclair and Couthard and Nababan’s theory is reelicitation, that a participant repeated the elicitation in various words.

Keywords:
Classroom Speech acts, Interaction, Directive, Elicitation, Re-elicitation, Checking, Empowering.

DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.37500/IJESSR.2021.4219