TEACHER’S LANGUAGE STYLE IN ENGLISH COURSE CLASS

The aim of this qualitative research was to investigate the language style used by the teacher in English Course Class. The data were teacher’s utterances which obtained from the conversation script of teaching learning process. The data were analyzed based on Joos’ theory that there are five categories of language style namely Frozen Style, Formal Style, Consultative Style, Casual Style and Intimate Style. The result of this research showed that there were three language styles used by the teacher, they are Casual Style (63.5%), and followed by Formal Style (25%) and Consultative Style (11.5%). From this result, it was found that Casual Style was dominantly used by the teacher in English course class. Since it is an English course and non formal education, the teacher might use casual style mostly in order to make students enjoy the class and comfortable with the teacher as the students are seventeen years old teenagers. Both teacher and students understood and communicated each other well.