INTERPERSONAL METAFUNCTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM DISCOURSE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE SUBJECT

The research deals with the realization of interpersonal metafunctions in the classroom discourse on the forms of exchange and move. The objectives of the study are to investigate the types of interpersonal metafunctions occuring in the classroom discourse of Sociology, Economics, and History, to describe the realization of interpersonal metafunctions in the classroom discourse of Sociology, Economics, and History, and to describe the control of interpersonal metafunctions in the classroom discourse of Sociology, Economics, and History. The data of this research were the transcription of audio-recorded discourse in Indonesian-Acehnese language between teacher-students and studentsteacher in the classroom of Sociology, Economics, and History subjects. The data were analyzed by descriptive qualitative design. The result of the study shows that: (1) the types of interpersonal metafunctions occuring in the lassroom discourse of Sociology, Economics, and History subjects are Mood and Modality, (2) the realization of interpersonal metafunctions in the classroom discourse is in exchange and moves, (3) the control of interpersonal metafunctions in the classroom discourse of Sociology,
Economics, and History subjects is dominated by teacher through
prominent teacher role, teacher-answered question, teacher-interruption of student-answers, turn taking, closed-questions, modeled-answer extraction, students’ demanding information, and students no-response move.