A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF AN OUTSIDE CLASSROOM CONVERSATION

Abstract

This paper tries to explore whether there are power relations and social inequality through analyzing a conversation between a teacher and student outside the classroom. This study adopts qualitative research, utilizing the descriptive analytical method in which data are collected through recording and transcribing a conversation outside the classroom between a teacher at the first level and a student at the second level at Aden Community College (ACC). Fairclough's Model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used to analyze the discourse at three stages: text analysis, discursive analysis and social practice analysis. According to Fairclough, this model examines and explores how language, power and ideology play an effective role in producing and shaping the discourse. In this research, data analysis shows that the teacher's power dominates and controls the conversation although the student has some freedom to talk and express her own opinions.