The topic of this study is interpersonal meaning realized in the choices of teacher’s utterances. Interpersonal meaning is language to establish social relationship, to communicate and to express speaker’s judgments and attitudes. Where in the case of schooling process it enables teacher interact with students through language in a various expression, rather declarative, interrogative or imperative. Interpersonal meaning realized through wording called (element which determine types of clause structure) and modality (part of clause that represents degree of certainty and obligation).
In this study, the discussion was limited by finding out the answer of the question: what are mood types mostly used by the teacher in EFL classroom. Qualitative descriptive research was used in this study. The data of the research are from an English teacher’s utterances of MA Hasan Kafrawi Jepara while conducting teaching learning. The techniques are; recording, transcribing, identifying and then analyzing the data to draw conclusion. Some references and text books related to the subject matter were selected to give evidence of the findings. The data of the research were in the form of clauses realized from teacher’s utterances. All of the teacher’s utterances were recorded, transcribed and then analyzed to figure out the realization of interpersonal meaning within the interaction between teacher and students in the classroom. The analyses of the data used the following steps: First, every clause that has been transcribed was divided into Indonesia and English clauses where merely the English clauses were the focus of this research. The clauses then were analyzed to find the Mood types and it elements. The last step was drawing the conclusion and arranging the report based on the findings.
After analyzing the utterances, three types of Mood were found; Declarative, Interrogative and Imperatives (Exclamatives were not found). The data represents that Mood types mostly used were Declaratives 76%, while Imperatives were 13% and Interrogatives were 11%.
Based on the research, the writer inferred that English teachers should master the knowledge of functional grammar and interpersonal meaning to help them choose appropriate expression among statement, question, offer or command to create an interactive learning and make students easier to understand material given.