AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT SMP ADVENT 2 MEDAN

Abstract

Politeness strategy is a very important communication strategy in a conversation between speakers. In the teaching and learning process at school, a teacher must apply it to students. In this study, researchers focused on analyzing the teacher's utterances. Namely, there are types of Politeness strategies in accordance with Yule's theory (1996), which researchers took to be two strategies: positive politeness and negative politeness. This research uses the descriptive-qualitative method by conducting observation and documentation. Based on the results of the analysis applied, researchers found 42 pieces of data from both types, namely positive politeness and negative politeness. Positive politeness: there are 29 data points with a percentage of 69% and negative politeness: there are 13 data points with a percentage of 31%. From the results of this study, the most dominant thing teachers say when teaching is that teachers apply more positive politeness. This analysis shows how important politeness strategies are to improving teacher- student interaction. It shows that a balanced strategy can help the teaching and learning process be better, and students feel motivated.