Chaudhary, Om Kumari2023-08-042023-08-042015https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/18928The present study entitled Critical Analysis of Classroom Discourse is an attempt to find out what kind of discourse practices and social practices are reflected by the language used in classroom. The main objective of the study was to critically analyse the classroom discourse in terms of interactional control, politeness and power. To achieve the objective of the study, and the researcher adapted Fairclough’s (1992) Critical Discourse Analysis Framework. The researcher used both primary and secondary sources of data. The researcher purposively selected three private schools of the Nawalparasi Distirct and recorded nine conversations, three from each school to collect primary data. In a similar vein, she consulted books, articles and journals related to CDA. The main tools of data collection were observation and audio recording. The collected data has been analysed and interpreted descriptively. The study found that teacher dominance was reflected in turn-taking systems, exchange structures, topic control and overall structure of the discourse. The study also found the use of direct and commanding type of language in the teacher’s speech while in the students’ speech, hedging, more politeness and less direct language was observed. Though these features found in teacher’s speech and students’ speech are common, teacher domination was found more than desirable. Even in the situation where students outdid in the class, they did not get friendly behaviour from their teachers. The study also showed that the power in the classroom resided with the teacher. Power was shown by teachers’ overlaps, questions, commands, and the way they addressed their students. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with general backgrounds, Statement of the problem, objectives and significance of the study and research questions and delimitation and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of theoretical literature, review of empirical literature/previous studies, implication of the review for the study and theoretical/conceptual framework. Third chapter consists of method and procedures of the study which involved design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, study area/ field, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. The fourth chapter consists of Analysis and interpretation of results and summary of findings. Similarly, the fifth chapter includes conclusions and recommendations and The final part of the study subsumes references and appendices.en-USClassroom discourseCritical analysisThesis