Analyzing Teachers’ Language Style in English Classroom

Language style is a person's way of conveying language in communicating. Language style has an important role in the process of interacting with people around. This also applies to teachers as educators and motivators for their students. This study aims to find out the use of language styles and the dominant use of teachers based on the theory of Martin Joos (1976). This research was conducted using mixed method by doing observation to gain the data. This study examines and analyzes the language style of three participants which are the English teachers at SMPN 1 Peukan Bada. From the results of this study, it can be concluded that the teachers use four of the five language styles mentioned by Joos (1976). The language styles are formal style, consultative style, casual style, and intimate style. Of these language styles, the casual style is the most dominant language style used by the three participants. This is due to the teacher's desire to bring a comfortable atmosphere during the learning process so that students can feel comfortable and easily understand the lesson.