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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about the characteristics of adults' speech to the children,
especially the sentences used by the teacher of Sunday school in teaching the
Bible story to the children under three years old. Since there is a gap between
adults and children's language mastery, adults tend to use different types of
speech to converse with little children. The thesis writer focuses her study on
language function and nucleus clause pattern produced by Sunday school teacher.
In analyzing the sentences, the writer tries to discover the nucleus clause patterns
used in conveying each function.
In this study, the writer used one meeting in a Sunday school class. By
separating the teacher's sentences and considering the context in which the
sentences occur, the writer was able to identify the language function served in
each sentence. As the next step of the analysis, the writer identified the nucleus
clause patterns and found out the nucleus clause patterns used in conveying the
language function.
The findings of this study show that there are particular features which
characterize the way the teacher tells the story. By investigating the language
functions, the teacher's sentences serve mainly representational, heuristic and
imaginative functions. The result of the study also reveals that the nucleus clause
patterns used are mainly simple and short, although they are inversion, change of
word orders, and the use of prompt questions. Finally, in identifying the nucleus
clause patterns used in conveying the language function, pattern S - P - O is the
pattern that occurs in all functions and pattern S - P and S - P O are the patterns
that are mostly found. Hence, the teacher's main purpose in telling the story is to
give the state of the subject as well as ask the subject to do something or to tell
something about the subject