Interpersonal Meanings in Students And Teachers’ Online Learning Interaction: Study of Systemic-Functional Linguistics

Abstract

This study examines the interpersonal meaning in teachers and students interaction at Madrasah Aliyah Swasta (MAS) Medan in online learning process. The process of data analysis used functional systemic linguistic studies (LSF) to identify the interpersonal meaning of teachers and students through a sign system that can be analyzed based on language structure and language use. In addition, this study analyzes how the language used and organized regarding the grammar used. This study used a descriptive method through a qualitative approach. Sources of data was collected through field observation techniques in the form of teachers and students’ speech acts and conversation transcripts in text messaging apps. The results of this study indicate the effects of speech function and speech partners as well as the influence of speech gender and addressee in disciplinary strategies at school. The findings in this study are about the interpersonal meanings of speech function of acknowledgment statements and contradictions which prove that there are various influences of disciplinary strategies in school based on the style of language used by teachers which are also determined by gender differences in interactions.