Teachers’ Appraisals In Multimodal Teachings Of Reading And Writing

Abstract

Multimodal teaching is the one that applies several modes such as languages, gestures, pictures, technologies etc. Each mode in this teaching has its own meaning. Teachers’ appraisals, as part of interpersonal meanings in teachers’ utterances, are important in this teaching because they will support the teaching and learning process. This study is aimed at describing the appraisals given by the teachers in the classrooms and figuring out the kinds of appraising items realized in teachers’ utterances. The steps used in collecting data are recording the teachers’ utterances in Reading and Writing classes, transcribing the spoken data into the written ones. The frameworks proposed by Martin & Rose (2003) and Martin & White (2005) were used in analyzing the data. The steps used are identifying the teachers’ appraisal given by the teachers, analyzing them based on engagement, attitude, and graduation; and then categorizing the types of appraising items used. The results showed that in term of engagement, monogloss are mostly found in the teachers’ utterances. The source of the appraisals is mostly from teachers. Both teachers, in term of attitude, used mostly positive affect, judgement and appreciation. In graduation, both teachers used more focus than force. It means that both teachers tried to soften the language used in the teaching process. The kinds of appraising items used mostly by the teachers are in the form of attitudinal lexis and adjective phrases. It is caused by the fact that those types are easy to produce and more appropriate to be used in the teaching process compared to the other one.Abstract.