With the development of language teaching methodology, the classroom practice of English language teaching has been under going many changes. Aiming at investigating the discourse used by the English teachers in the junior high school classrooms, this study discovers new functions of English teachers classroom discourse, based on which a new framewor k of discourse functions including 4 categories and 25 sub- categories is proposed. The results of the research are expected to provide insights for the study of language teaching and language teacher education.