Discourse Analysis of Interpersonal Metafunction in EFL Instructors’ Talk

الملخص

           This study aims to investigate the interpersonal metafunction of EFL university instructors’ talk. Understanding and comprehending a speech serves as a means to convey ideas to the audience effectively. Nonetheless, previous research has emphasized that a successful speech should encompass all elements of interpersonal metafunction: mood, speech function, and modality. For this end, this study attempts to apply the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) in order to analyze the verbal lectures of the university instructors. One spoken lecture in English literature namely ‘drama course’ is chosen and one spoken lecture in Applied linguistics namely ‘writing course’ is selected. These two spoken lectures are selected from the You Tube randomly. For the analysis of the data, this study follows qualitative (thematic analysis) and quantitative  research method. The final results of this study show that declarative mood, statement speech function, and probability modality are often used in the instructors’ talk. It is important to maintain the communication between the teacher and the student vital. Some pedagogical implications are suggested at the end of this study.