A Study of The Classroom Language of Junior Secondary School Teachers of English,

Abstract

The purpose of this study is basically to identify the language
functions most commonly used by junior secondary school teachers
of English in the classroom. In addition, the study aims at identifying
the linguistic errors that occur in the language functions and along
with this it attempts to show which language functions the teachers
find most difficult to handle and which they manipulate with ease.
Four government junior secondary schools were selected for the
study. From the ,twelve teachers of English working in these schools
eight were selected and recorded while teaching English in the
classroom. The recorded lessons were then transcribed and analyzed
on the basis of the system of analysis developed by Sinclair and
Coulthard (1975) with a slight modification made by this researcher.