Wh-Movement Pattern in the Spoken Discourse of Teachers: A Syntactic Analysis
This study investigates the syntactic structures of spoken discourse of teachers in academic discourse. The knowledge of syntactic structure of a language helps in understanding the spoken discourse. So, the study identifies the wh-Movement in the syntactic structures of teachers in English classroom sessions. The data was collected from two universities of Federal government, Pakistan. The one was Air University Islamabad and the second was National University of Modern Languages Islamabad. The data was collected through the recording tool where the English classroom sessions of the teachers were audio-recorded and transcribed. The analysis of data was quantitative and qualitative in nature. The frequency of wh-movement in the structures of recorded English spoken data was analysed quantitatively. In qualitative analyses, the transcribed data was analysed syntactically, keeping in view minimalist perspective, with the help of parsing rules and figures. The analyzed data shows that the teachers at undergraduate level use language where wh-movement is employed in syntactic structure of English used in classroom sessions. They move whexpression into other slots like internal merge and pied-pipe. However, the minimalist parametric unit, wh-movement, was found in the sentence structures of the teachers in the delivery of classroom sessions. So, the minimal pairs of sentence structure impacts different level of language.
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Academic Discourse, Classroom, Minimalism, Spoken Language, Syntactic Structures, Wh-Movement
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(1) Muhammad Saleem
MPhil. Scholar (English), Department of Humanities, Air University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Fatima Alam Khan
Independent Researcher (English), Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Aleena Zaman
Graduate Scholar (English), Department of English, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA : Saleem, M., Khan, F. A., & Zaman, A. (2018). Wh-Movement Pattern in the Spoken Discourse of Teachers: A Syntactic Analysis. Global Social Sciences Review, III(II), 400-420. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-II).23
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CHICAGO : Saleem, Muhammad, Fatima Alam Khan, and Aleena Zaman. 2018. "Wh-Movement Pattern in the Spoken Discourse of Teachers: A Syntactic Analysis." Global Social Sciences Review, III (II): 400-420 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2018(III-II).23
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HARVARD : SALEEM, M., KHAN, F. A. & ZAMAN, A. 2018. Wh-Movement Pattern in the Spoken Discourse of Teachers: A Syntactic Analysis. Global Social Sciences Review, III, 400-420.
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MHRA : Saleem, Muhammad, Fatima Alam Khan, and Aleena Zaman. 2018. "Wh-Movement Pattern in the Spoken Discourse of Teachers: A Syntactic Analysis." Global Social Sciences Review, III: 400-420
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OXFORD : Saleem, Muhammad, Khan, Fatima Alam, and Zaman, Aleena (2018), "Wh-Movement Pattern in the Spoken Discourse of Teachers: A Syntactic Analysis", Global Social Sciences Review, III (II), 400-420
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TURABIAN : Saleem, Muhammad, Fatima Alam Khan, and Aleena Zaman. "Wh-Movement Pattern in the Spoken Discourse of Teachers: A Syntactic Analysis." Global Social Sciences Review III, no. II (2018): 400-420. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-II).23