Politeness Strategies in EFL Classroom: An Effect on building A Positive Values towards Students

Abstract

Abstract-Politeness is basically the study of knowing the way people use certain languages while they are having communication. In a language pedagogy, it does not rely on the Brown and Levinson theory of politeness to form the basis of teaching "politeness phenomena;" rather, there should be an attempt to raise cultural awareness. Moreover, it proposes the learning of politeness in a foreign language is a process of "reframing", re-analyzing existing frames regarding the linguistic behavior that generally occurs in a certain context. This paper, therefore, aims at investigating politeness strategies used by the students and teacher in EFL, and the effect on good values applied in EFL. The study adopted qualitative and quantitative method. Furthermore, 30 students were involved in the research. However, two instruments were used such as recording and observation. The result reveals that 40 % utterances applied positive politeness strategies, 30 % negative politeness strategies, and 30 % bald on-record strategies. Meanwhile, the activities showing positive utterances are positive academic instruction, motivation, classroom management, and evaluation. Those bring about: 1) the positive values such as positive utterances in giving opinion; 2) avoiding direct expression of disagreement; 3) changing instruction into awareness.

Teacher and Students’ Politeness Strategies in EFL Classroom Interactions

“…The result of this present study which revealed that the politeness strategies occurred in the classroom interactions was in line with some previous studies on politeness (Khusnia, 2017;Mahmud, 2019;Rahayuningsih et al, 2019;Senowarsito, 2013). Moreover, in this study, the finding also revealed that negative politeness strategy was mostly used in the classroom interactions with 8 out of 13 excerpts found.…”

“…Thus, the politeness strategies can help to maintain the formality in doing presentation in the class. The study conducted by Khusnia (2017) and Umayah et al (2018) also indicated that politeness strategies have positive implications in students' attitude on language.…”

“…Studies on politeness also have been conducted by some researchers in Indonesia (Ambarwati et al, 2019;Jeanyfer & Tanto, 2018;Khusnia, 2017;Mahmud, 2019;Umayah et al, 2018;Widiadnya et al, 2018). Some researchers found that students in higher and secondary education showed positive and negative politeness strategies in their classroom interactions (Khusnia, 2017;Mahmud, 2019;Umayah et al, 2018). The university students as investigated by Mahmud (2019) showed the politeness strategies in their presentation activity in the class.…”

Politeness in Thesis Consultation by WhatsApp: Do Lecturers and Students Apply Different Strategies?

“…Students have a tendency to use positive politeness to demonstrate respect for lecturers who have more power and social status than students (Arif et al, 2018;Khusnia, 2017). A lecturer, on the other hand, employs a strategy with distinct preferences.…”

“…Politeness is a positive attitude toward communication. It is a form of respect for others in social interactions (Khusnia, 2017;Jeanyfer & Tanto, 2018;Susanti et al, 2018;Yusuf & Anwar, 2019;Mahmud, 2019;Sapitri et al, 2020). Furthermore, according to Lakoff (1973), politeness is a type of communication attitude developed in society to avoid conflict.…”