Abstract: The study described the spoken discourse performance of the Industrial Education student teachers in three levels of language namely: phonology, morphology and syntax during their on-campus teaching. It primarily described phonology through the student teachers’ intonation patterns of their utterances. It also investigated the production of inflected morphemes “ed” for description of their performance on morphology. Lastly, it analyzed the student teachers’ sentence structures of their utterances to describe their spoken discourse performance in terms of syntax, The research used the qualitative research method to analyze the data and describe the spoken discourse performance of the student teachers. It also utilized an interview guide to gather data on the language profile of the student teachers. The on-campus teaching underwent video recording to describe the actual spoken discourse performance. Results showed that the utterances of the student teachers displayed evidence of intonation patterns variation on wh-questions and yes/no questions. Findings also demonstrated that common to the utterances were inconsistencies in the production of the inflected morpheme “ed. Thus, student teachers’ production resulted from the common linguistic phenomenon in which they tended to carry the intonation and pronunciation rules from their mother tongue (Filipino) into their English spoken discourse. Syntax, on the other hand, was described based on the error scheme on misformation, addition, omission, and misordering. Data showed that the most common slip-ups in the sets of video transcripts of on-campus teaching were the misformation errors. Another ungrammatical element observed was the errors of omission on verbs. There were also errors of addition in they demonstrated the use of unnecessary tense markers. Likewise, student teachers also made errors of ordering when they wrongly sequenced their utterances. This research implies that there is an interference of Filipino language in the production of the student teachers’ intonation patterns, inflected morpheme and sentence structures which describes the spoken discourse performance of the student teachers.
Keywords: Spoken Discourse, Industrial Education, Student Teachers.
Title: SPOKEN DISCOURSE PERFORMANCE OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION STUDENT TEACHERS
Author: Dr. Emily L. Beltran
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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