The Types of Modality in Teaching Learning Process

Teaching learning process is an activity that aimed
to transfer the lesson to the students that means the teachers as
the senders of the message and the students mostly as the
listeners. The teachers transformed the knowledge in class by
using utterances. it will be interaction of the teachers and the
students. When the teachers talked infront of the class, the
modality as the sub topic of systemic functional linguistics must
be used in the interaction. Modality is used by the teachers to
express the willingness, necessity and etc. But sometimes,
teachers can not decide the suitable modality used in teaching
learning process. In line with this idea, the objective of this study
is to find out the types of modality applied in teaching learning
process. This study used the types of modality proposed by
Halliday (2004) : Modalization and modulation. The source of the
data of this study will be gathered by the teachers and students
interactions and the data was the utterances that contains of
modality. This study applied descriptive qualitative. It was found
that the types of modality applied by the teachers and the
students mostly was obligation (54.38%), the second was
probability (25.38%), followed by inclination (16.98%) and the
last type that applied by the teachers and the students was
usuality (3.24%).