Discourse Analysis On Mood Stucture Of Teachers’ Talk In Efl Classroom

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.