Teachers’ language in their instruction to grade eight at MTS Darul Ulum Waru

Teachers’ language is one of important role in succeeding the teachers’ instruction in the classroom. In delivering the instruction, every teacher usually use variety of language constructions. It depends on the context or situation in the classroom. This research is aimed at examining the teachers’ language particularly the utterances construction and the contextual meaning of teachers’ utterances in their instruction in teaching English to grade Eight. This research used case study as approach and qualitative as the research design. Some instruments are used in this study they are observation note, video and audio recording, and interview. The subject of this research is two English teachers who taught at grade eight at MTs Darul Ulum Waru. The result of this study reveal that there are 29 utterances found with five variety of language constructions used by teacher in their instructions such as imperative; negative imperative; personal imperative; the use of verb want; the use of modal auxiliaries must, have to, and should; the use of word ‘please before verb or ‘please’ after verb. In addition, the finding shows that every utterance deliverd by the teachers have their owns meaning according to the situation or context. There were twenty-nine words or phrases found as the context. Those words and phrases have different meaning. It can be highlighted that every teacher must consider the simplest and clearest language construction in delivering their instruction in order to minimize the students’ misunderstanding in interpreting the teachers’ language instructions.