Wh-Movement Pattern in the Spoken Discourse of Teachers: A Syntactic Analysis
Journal Title: Global Social Sciences Review - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
This study investigates the syntactic structures of spoken discourse of teachers in academic discourse. The knowledge of syntactic structure of a language helps in understanding the spoken discourse. So, the study identifies the wh-Movement in the syntactic structures of teachers in English classroom sessions. The data was collected from two universities of Federal government, Pakistan. The one was Air University Islamabad and the second was National University of Modern Languages Islamabad. The data was collected through the recording tool where the English classroom sessions of the teachers were audio-recorded and transcribed. The analysis of data was quantitative and qualitative in nature. The frequency of wh-movement in the structures of recorded English spoken data was analysed quantitatively. In qualitative analyses, the transcribed data was analysed syntactically, keeping in view minimalist perspective, with the help of parsing rules and figures. The analyzed data shows that the teachers at undergraduate level use language where wh-movement is employed in syntactic structure of English used in classroom sessions. They move whexpression into other slots like internal merge and pied-pipe. However, the minimalist parametric unit, wh-movement, was found in the sentence structures of the teachers in the delivery of classroom sessions. So, the minimal pairs of sentence structure impacts different level of language.
Authors and Affiliations
Muhammad Seleem, Fatima Alam Khan, Aleena Zaman
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP606121
- DOI 10.31703/gssr.2018(III-II).23
- Views 80
- Downloads 0
Encouraging Trends in women Politics in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwah
Modern democratic age is based on the philosophy of |ONE-MAN ONEVOTE". Women constitute more than 50% of the world population. Pakistan's Constitution of 1973 has guaranteed women's political rights, equally with men. Th...
Causes of Teacher's Favoritism and Its Effects on the University Students: A Case Study
This study aims at exploring and examining the causes of teacher's favoritism and its effects on the university students. Quantitative tools are applied to collect data for the study and to check its reliability. The res...
Development and Validation of Multiple-Choice Test of the Geometry Part of Mathematics for Secondary Class
This study overviews development and validity of a pool of multiple choice test items of geometry part of Mathematics for secondary level. A table of specifications was prepared and a pool of 48 multiple-choice type test...
Institutional Mapping and Political Economy of DRR: A Case Study of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)
This paper aims to analyze the institutional framework in Pakistan for disaster management and specific disaster management policies. This paper is also designed to develop an in-depth understanding of the key challenges...
Effects of Over-Crowded Classes on Teaching Learning Process at Secondary Level in District Nankana Sahib
The researcher aimed at investigating the effects of overcrowded classes on the teaching learning process at secondary level. By nature, this research study was descriptive so survey research design was employed and a cl...