INTERROGATING THE SOCIO-POLITICAL EQUATION OF LECTURER-STUDENTS’ RELATIONSHIP IN CLASSROOM SITUATIONS

ABSTRACT

This study is to critically examine the socio-political equation of lecturer-students’ relationship in a classroom situation. The main objective of this study is to investigate lecturer-students’ relationship in a classroom situation focusing on the social equation and political equation evident in the relationship and also to explicate how the socio-political equation of this relationship affects or influences productivity in students. Through observation, the investigator was able to collect words and expressions used by the lecturers in classroom to portray socio- political inbalance in classroom discourse which was critically analyzed. From the investigation, it was discovered that in most classroom discourses there are some linguistic portrayals of power and inequality in lecturer-students’ relationship and this is mostly in the lecturers’ lexis and syntactic use of language. Nevertheless, the research also bring to fore that despite the reflection of social and political imbalance in some classroom discourse, there are other discourse that shows or project socio-political equation. Recommendation was made to improve learning through having equation in the relationship between lecturers and students especially in classroom situations.

Table of Contents

Title page

Certification

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Table of Content

Abstract

Chapter One

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Background to the Study

1.2 Statement of Problem

1.3 Aim and Objectives

1.4 Research Questions

1.5 Scope of the Study

1.6 Significance of the Study

Chapter Two – Literature Review

2.0 Introduction

2.1 A Review of Relevant Literature

TABLE OF CONTENT

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2.1.0 The Concept, Socio-political Equation

2.1.1 Social Inequality

2.1.2 Scholarly Perspectives of Lecturer-Students Relationship

2.1.3 Lecturers and Students’ Expectation

2.2 Concept of Power and Inequality Evident in Lecturer-Students Relationship

2.3 The Role of Language in identifying Socio-political Issues

2.4 Theoretical Framework

2.4.1 Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis

Chapter Three - Research Methodology

3.0 Introduction

3.1 Research Design

3.2 Research Procedure

3.3 Method of Data Collection

3.4 Instrumentation

3.5 Research Participants

Chapter Four- Data Presentation and Discussion of Findings

4.0 Introduction

4.1 Systematic Presentation and Discussion of Findings

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4.1.0 Overview of Classroom Discourse

4.1.1 Identification of data

4.2 Linguistic Analysis of the texts (Vocabulary, Grammar and Textual Structure)

4.2.1 Lexis

4.2.2 Grammar

4.2.3 The Use of Code-switching

4.3 Analysing Text 3 and Text 3

Chapter Five

5.0 Summary

5.1 Findings

5.2 Conclusion and Recommendation

References