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Abstract:

This study critically examines the socio-political equation of lecturer-students’ relationship in a classroom situation. The main objective of this study is to investigate the lecturer-student relationship in a classroom situation focusing on the social equation and political equation evident in the relationship and also to explicate how the socio-political equation of this relationship affects or influences productivity in students. Through observation, the investigator was able to collect words and expressions used by the lecturers in the classroom to portray socio-political imbalance in classroom discourse which was critically analyzed. From the investigation, it was discovered that in most classroom discourses there are some linguistic portrayals of power and inequality in the lecturer-students’ relationship and this is mostly in the lecturers’ lexis and syntactic use of language. Nevertheless, the research also brings to the fore that despite the reflection of a social and political imbalance in some classroom discourse, there are other discourses that show or project socio-political equations. A recommendation was made to improve learning by having equations in the relationship between lecturers and students especially in classroom situations.