SPEECH FUNCTION OF TEACHERS UTTERANCES IN CLASSROOM INTERACTION AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Speech function is an exchange of experience in communication between speaker and listener where the speaker adopts a speech functional role and signs the addressee a complementry role. This research discusses a case study of speech functions was by teachers in the classroom interaction and how the speech functions was realization of Mood. This research was conducted in a qualitative research. The participants of this study were Indonesian teachers utterances in classroom interactions of the elementry school. The Instrument of collecting the data the researcher used audio recorder and observation sheet.The findings showed that the types of speech functions found in teacher utterances in classroom interactions are statement, question, command, offer, and minor. In which statement was dominantly used by teachers in the interactions with the students, followed by question, command, offer and minor.