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This study surveys some features of native teachers’ verbal behaviour in Korean basic English conversation classrooms based on T.A.s’ transcription, applying the functional analysis of Sinclair and Coulthard (1975), Bowers (1980), and Rogers (2002). In the case of the relation between function and forms unmarked forms are preferred to marked forms: for example ‘elicitation’ and ‘check’ are realized by interrogative, almost all of ‘informative’ by declarative, and about three quarters of directive by ‘imperative’. As for subordinate acts such as ‘prompt’ and ‘loop’ which do not have instructional purpose, they are often expressed in basic simple grammatical forms like other instructive acts, the result which is a little different from the research of Sinclair and Coulthard (1975). In relation to the instructional act, ‘elicitation’, display questions and referential questions are equally distributed even though much of the referential questions are closed ones. For ‘evaluation’ we also found as many simple sentences as formulaic expressions. Regarding Sinclair and Coulthard’s (1975) fixed categorization, it needs some change or adaptation because in the contemporary EFL classes subsidiary acts like ‘discipline’ and ‘sociative’ are uttered much more frequently and taking more emerging prominence.