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9 Question Demanding Facts
14 clauses 9
Question Demanding Opinion 10 clauses
9 Offer Giving Goods And Services
0 clauses 9
Command Demanding Goods And Services 12 clause.
Here is the discussion of the speech functions performed by the teacher:
4.2.1.1 Teacher’s Statement Giving Factual Information
In this classroom discourse, the teacher used statement giving facts for the following purposes:
1. to state the topic of the lesson, such as: -
“Today we will talk about our classroom rules” -
“Now, I have this chart. And this chart is talk about the courtesy. Courtesy means rules.”
2. to explain the lesson -
“Rules are very important” -
“It’s very noisy if we don’t have rules because everybody talks” -
“We write it that they are in a preschool and they don’t know about the rules. T drew the illustration on the white board”
- “So we have Kerry, little Kerry and they were in a preschool and they
don’t know the rules”
3. to state the procedures of the activity the students should do -
“Ok, this I will say the words and then you will circle the words Yes or No. “
4. to provide the students feedback, such as: -
“Yes right, knock the door.” -
“Yes right And writing” -
“Yes..five magic words.”
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4.2.1.2 Teacher’s Statement Giving Opinion
The teacher used statement giving opinion to reinforce the students through positive verbal reinforcement, such as:
- “Yes, that’s good”
- “Good”
4.2.1.3 Teacher’s Question Demanding Facts
The teacher used mostly question demanding factual information rather than demanding opinion information because the teacher asked the
last students’ experiences to review factual information. For example, she asked the last activities the students have performed and with simple
grammatical form such as Wh- questions and Yes No questions because the students at this age still produce limited language production so that they
have limitation in giving their opinion. The excerpts below are the teacher’s question in demanding factual information:
- “What did you learn at school?”
- “Did you learn playing at school?”
- “Did you learn English at school?”
- “Did you learn about classroom rules at school?”
- “The students are listening to the teacher, yes or no?”
- “To keep the playground clean and tidy, Yes or No?”
4.2.1.4 Teacher’s Question Demanding Opinion
