Lecturer's Language Styles in Teaching English as Foreign Language Class of Postgraduate School, State University of Medan

DOI

10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.100How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Interactive Model, Language Styles, Lecture's Language Styles, TEFL Class

Abstract

The aim of this research was to analyze types of language styles used by an English lecturer of Postgraduate School, State University Medan. It was conducted by using qualitative descriptive design. The data of this research were the utterances of a lecturer of Teaching English as Foreign Language subject of Postgraduate School, State University of Medan, containing some language styles transcribed into the written form of the transcripts of the teaching-learning activity. The sources of data were taken from Teaching English as Foreign Language class for four weeks. The techniques of data collection in this research were analyzing the transcripts of the lecturer's utterances in a classroom setting. The supporting instrument to collect the data was voice recorder. The data were analyzed by using interactive model proposed by Miles, Huberman and Saldana (2014) with three phases of data analysis. The phases are data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing or verification. After analyzing the types of language styles used by the lecturer for four weeks, it was found that only three types of language styles used by the lecturer in teaching-learning activity. They were formal style, consultative style and casual style. The most dominant language style is casual style (77.27%), followed by formal style (11.36%), and consultative style (11.36%) in similar amount of use.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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