What’s in a Sentence? That Which We Call Metafunctions of Lecturers’ Explanation in Indonesia

摘要

It was a discourse analysis. This research analyzed lecturers’ explanation in Business English Classes since explanation was at the “heart” of teaching. The objectives of the study were: to examine the types of explanation and to explain the realization of interpersonal,experiential and textual meanings in explanation. The study used Functional Grammar to reveal the metafunctions. This research had four main findings. Firstly, the lecturers used question ‘what,’ interpretative type. Secondly, the realization of interpersonal meaning was the dominanceof full declarative which indicates the giving of information. Thirdly, the realization of experiential meaning was the dominance of relational processes which focuses on defining. Fourthly, the realization of textual meaning was the dominance of textual theme in text A and the dominance ofinterpersonal theme in text B. The conclusions were the lecturers use interpretative type, the meanings were realized with full declarative, relational processes, and textual theme in text A and interpersonal theme in text B. Thus; in the future, it is suggested to explore the thought of Javanesestudents who are supposed to be quite in the teaching-learning process.