A Critical Content Analysis ofMartin Luther King Jr. Speeches (I Have a Dream) as a Model

Abstract

This study aims at a critical content analysis for the speeches and writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., with reference to the speech “I Have a Dream”. The study adopts a mixed- method approach, the descriptive analytical and experimental methods. A questionnaire of different and various statements is employed to collect data, categorizing information and then applying the analytical procedures.The study findings match the hypotheses of the thesis, the speech has a great influence on the Black community and the whole world which was attracted to the Black issue in America. The researcher recommends that content analysis should be a large scale study to handle such issues as the inclusion of this significant method at undergraduate level, and to increase classroom interaction, also syllabuses of English language should seek to consider the question of content analysis as a distinguished method of analysis. The study puts forward the following suggestions: future studies to be carried out on relatively larger scales as to include both Discourse Analysis and Content Analysis and underline the differences between the two approaches. The present study can be further extended by means of a quasi-research to have better results with implications for the tutors at undergraduate level.