Function of Power in Class Discourse

DOI

10.2991/iclle-18.2018.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

power, class discourse, and learning

Abstract

Power is the potentiality possessed by a person to influence the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others. In fact, power is used in all speech events, including in class discourse. Through speech acts and speech patterns, teachers (T) and students (S) use the power in learning activities. Generally, power in class discourse is used for preventive, supportive, and corrective action. Teachers use power for preventive action when preventing disciplinary offenses; misunderstanding of the subject matter; and other deviant behaviors in the learning process. Power is enabled for supportive actions when teachers motivate students to behave well, dare to ask questions, and answer when in the learning process. Meanwhile, when a violation of the rules happens, both school rules and rules in the learning process, the teacher uses the power of his authority to stop the offense. Generally, the use of power in class discourse still tends to be dominative. Although the teacher has been empowering the students in the learning process, but the source of power still tends to focus on the teacher. The teacher with his power still acts as the main determinant of rules and punishments in the learning process. Therefore, power has not been maximally utilized to lead students to participate actively in determining school rules, the various punishments to be borne, and the source of truth to the knowledge they are studying.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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