Abstract:
This study aimed to analyze the talk of male and female teachers in EFL classes.
This analysis is intended to find out the realization of moods in teacher talks, the
realization of moods in the teacher's role, and the differences in mood realization
between male and female teacher talks in EFL classes. It was designed as a
descriptive-qualitative study, and discourse analysis. Data collected through
observation, video recording and field note. Data were analyzed using Mood
structure analysis suggested by M.A.K Halliday. To get a deeper analysis, it is
done by classifying utterances based description, meaning, and code. The findings
of this study can be stated as follows: (1) the types of moodmale teacher found 26
types of declarative mood of utterances, 26 interrogative mood, and 22 imperative
mood. Meanwhile female teacher found 21 type of declarative mood, 17
interrogative mood, 6 imperative mood (2) for the realization of mood structures
of male and female teachers talk, in the speech function mostly used is statement
and interrogative mood in learning process.(3) for the reason in realization of
mood structure found that most often frequently used is declarative mood
structure. It occurs because the priority of the teacher’s role just giving
information to the students.
