Abstract
The aim of this study is to find out the politeness strategies used by the teachers and students, and how the politeness affects to the student’s compliance. The focus is on directive and expressive speech acts in English for Foreign Language (EFL) Class. The subjects of this study were three lecturers and the students of three English classes. In data collecting procedure, the researcher used observation techniques. The observation was used to record the audio and video of teaching and learning process from the beginning until the end of the class. The audio-record of teaching and learning process will be transcribed into convention transcript, and then the transcript will be selected and classified into ten maxims in doing politeness strategies. The analytical part adopts the viewpoints of Leech’s (2014) “The Components Maxims of the General Strategy of Politeness”. In the data analysis, it is found that 1) the teachers used ten maxims in their communication to the students. They are tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim agreement maxim, Obligation (of S to O) maxim, sympathy maxim, modest maxim, Obligation (of O to S) maxim, Opinion reticence maxim, and feeling reticence maxim. 2) The lecturers dominantly used tact maxim in their directive speech acts to the students. The last part of this paper aims at summarizing the implications that this paper, its theoretical summary, and its research, have for teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) class.
Highlights
To learn a language communicatively, one must know the rules governing the language beyond its structural properties
The politeness principle consists of ten maxims namely tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim and sympathy maxim
From the observation conducted in English class at Islamic College Jakarta, it was found that the teachers used ten types of politeness strategies in their communication
Summary
To learn a language communicatively, one must know the rules governing the language beyond its structural properties. The rules help the learner to take into consideration the person whom he is talking with, paying attention to the situation, acting in the way required, and choosing the best way of conveying the message, so as not to ruin the self-image of others. Politeness becomes one of important issues in Indonesian education recently. Most students tend to speak impolitely, and they prefer to use slang or informal language at school. A teacher has a responsibility to teach their students how to speak politely and admonish them if they speak impolitely at school especially during classroom interaction. A teacher needs to speak politely in front of the students in order to influence them to speak politely too.
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