A Study on the Interpersonal Meaning of Middle School English Teacher Talk.doc

中学英语教师课堂话语人际意义的研究A Study on the Interpersonal Meaning of Middle School English Teacher TalkAbstract: All round development has become a explicit tendency in all levels of education, English, as one required course, is considered to be the efficient approach to help the learners achieve all round development. In this domain, teachers and their teaching behaviors have shown its educational significance in realistic teaching. In light of the educational significance of Teacher Talk, most researches on Teacher Talk at present just focus on such topics as linguistic features, rhetoric devices, and pragmatic features and so on. Therefore, this research is to take empirical approach to explore into the interpersonal meaning of Teacher Talk. While taking the Systemic Functional Linguistics as the theoretical framework and the recorded Teacher Talk as the research data, and employing the descriptive and prescriptive methods, the thesis demonstrates how the interpersonal meaning is generally realized in Teacher Talk from the levels of modality and syntactic structures. By which, the interpersonal meaning is elicited based on the research. And then the teachers’ teaching beliefs about learners, teachers and teaching itself can be found. Through data analysis, it has been found: 1) the applicational frequencies of low, median and high degree are distributing in a divergent way, and teachers are more inclined to median degree of modal verbs. 2) different forms of syntactic structures realizations are applied in Teacher Talk, while the applicational frequencies of imperative sentence, interrogative sentence and declarative sentence are distributing in a divergent way, and teachers are more inclined to interrogative sentence and declarative sentence. 3) In the three degrees of modality, teacher are more inclined to the medain degree of modalty, students are equal to teachers in status, they are not the passive recivers but active participantors. Through the present research, the thesis is aimed to enhance the teachers’ awareness to attend to their utterances in the class and make their discourse-in-class more acceptable. Key words: middle school English teacher; Teacher Talk; interpersonal meaning摘　要：随着教育的快速发展，英语全球化的趋势日益增强，英语学习也得到蓬勃的发展，而课堂话语在英语教学上的作用日趋显著。

因此越来越多的专家和教育工作者更加关注英语教师课堂话语目前，英语教师课堂话语的研究从研究语言学视觉、修辞视觉展开的较多，但对其人际意义功能的进行探讨的较为少数系统功能语言学的兴起为研究英语教师课堂话语提供了一个新的视觉，本文以系统功能语言学的人际意义功能理论为框架，以搜集的中学英语教师课堂话语真实语料为基础，通过举例、数据统计、分析、描述、规划等方法，从情态、句法结构上对中学英语教师课堂话语的人际意义进行研究通过研究发现不同句法结构、不同程度情态词的使用表达了不同的人际意义，教师在句法结构的应用上较偏向于疑问句和陈述句的使用，在情态词的使用上大量应用了中等情态词教师在情态、句法结构上的巧妙应用，从而使其树立正确的教学观念、端正教学行为、准确定位教师和学生在教学过程中的作用和地位、拉近师生之间的心理、社会距离，建立良好的师生关系；进一步挖掘学生的潜力，让他们在积极主动的课堂参与中有效地获取知识关键词：中学英语教师；教师话语；人际意义ContentsI. Introduction………………………………………….………………..1A. Background…………………………………….………………........1B. Research significance…………………………………………….…...1C. Research purpose…………………………………………….………1II. Literature Review…………………………………………….……...3A. Systemic- functional Linguistics………………………………………3B. Interpersonal meaning…………………………………………….…4C. Preview studies about Teacher Talk…………………………………...6D. Modality…………………………………………….………………8III. Research…………………………………………….………………9A. Research questions…………………………………………….…….9B. Research methods…………………………………………….……...9C. Research procedures…………………………………………….…..10D. Research results…………………………………………….……….12E.Suggestions…………………….……………..…………….…………………12Ⅳ. Conclusion…………………………………………….…………….14A. Summary…………………………………………….……………..14B. Limitations and expectations…………………………………………15 Works Cited…………………………………………….………............16Appendix 1…………………………………………….………………..17I. Introduction A. BackgroundWith the further implications of basic and higher education all round development has become a story tendency in all levels of education, English, as one require course, is considered to be the efficient approach to help realize the all round development. Hence English education gains its vigorous development. In this domain, teachers and their teaching realizing behaviors have shown its educational significance in realistic teaching. Therefore, this research is to take Teacher Talk as the topic to explore into. And Teacher Talk plays a more and more important role in English classroom, and as a result, more and more researchers and teachers have paid their attention to Teacher Talk.B. Research significanceThrough research about Middle School English Teacher Talk, the interpersonal meaning is elicited based on the research. And then the teachers’ teaching beliefs about learners, teachers and teaching itself can be found. This is an approach to help teacher to find more self-awareness of Teacher Talk in their speech, and foster correct teacher beliefs, boldly adopt new teaching principles and teaching methods, reestablish teachers and students’ positions and roles in the process of teaching, and try to create optimum language environments through optimizi。