An Analysis Of Discourse Pattern In Secondary English Classes

Abstract

This study entitled "An Analysis of Discourse Patterns of Secondary English Classes" tries to present an analysis of classroom discourse patterns of secondary English classes in government aided schools. The main objectives of this study were to analyze discourse patterns of those classes and compare the patterns with those suggested by Sinclair and Coulthard (1975). For the completion of the study, sixteen English classes of grade nine were observed and four of the observer classes were audio-recorded. The recorded classes were transcribed and analyzed following Sinclair-Coulthard model of discourse analysis. The study clearly revealed English classes of those VDCs have a great lack of exposure in the classrooms interaction and two way communication. This book contains four chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction, which presents the study in terms of general background, review of related literature, objective and significance of the study. The second chapter two deals with methodology used for the study. This includes source of data, sampling procedure, tools for data collection and limitation of the study. The third chapter consists of the analysis and interpretation of the data. The data have been analyzed and interpreted under the guideline model of discourse analysis provided by Sinclair and Coulthard (1975). The fourth chapter discusses the findings of the study also draws a conclusion and suggests some recommendations on the basis of the findings. The final part of the thesis contains references and appendices.