An Analysis of Politeness on Teacher’s Utterances In English Teaching Learning Process

'Ulya, Itsna 'Ainul (2016) An Analysis of Politeness on Teacher’s Utterances In English Teaching Learning Process. Other thesis, Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan.

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Abstract

This research is carried out to describe thetypes of politeness maxims that used by the teacher in English teaching learning process.This study is also intended to analyze the most dominant type of politeness maxims used by the teacher in English teaching learning process. The writer has chosen English teacher on the first grade students of MTsNSusukan 2015/2016 and the object are a teacher of class VII A and B. The writer joins in the class and records the activities when teachers teach students.The writer applied descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data, by transcribing, identification, classification, and analyzing.The writer used the theory of politeness by Geoffrey Leech (1983). According to Leech(1993: 82)Politeness principle is a series of maxims that support the idea that negative politeness is more important than positive politeness. In this theory, the politeness is divided into six parts: tact maxim, approbation maxim, generosity maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim and the sympathy maxim. The overall findings showed that there were four maxims applied by the teacherof class VII-A and VII-B in whole of classroom interaction; those were tact maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, and agreement maxim. The dominant type of politeness principles used by the teacher of class VII-A and VII-B was tact maxim. She used it in order to give efficiency of her utterance and make it accepted by the students clearly without any ambiguity. This maxim does easier and more appropriate for directive speech actsapplication.

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