A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF IMPOLITENESS UTTERANCES IN THE TEACHER-STUDENTS INTERACTION IN ENGLISH TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS AT THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMP AL ISLAM KARTASURA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/ 2017

Putri Arumningtyas, 2017. A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF IMPOLITENESS UTTERANCES IN THE TEACHER-STUDENTS INTERACTION IN ENGLISH TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS AT THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMP AL ISLAM KARTASURA IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2016/ 2017. English Education, Islamic Education and Teacher Training faculty. Advisor : Kurniawan, M. Hum. Keywords : Impoliteness, Types, Context Situation, Responses This research examines impoliteness aspects obtain from the utterances spoken by the students of SMP Al Islam Kartasura academic year of 2016/ 2017 by using pragmatic approach. The objectives of this research are to describe: 1) the types of impoliteness utterances addressed to the teacher, 2) to explain the context situation of the impoliteness utterances, and 3) to describe the responses of teacher to the impoliteness utterances in the English teaching and learning process. This research used qualitative method. The data were in the form of utterances spoken by the students and teacher, while the contexts of the data were dialogues. The sources of this research were the script of the dialogues spoken by the students and teacher. The primary instrument of this research was observation, while the secondary instrument was the data sheet. The researcher used analysis of documents by note-taking to collect the data. Referential analysis was used to analyze the data. Finally, the data were triangulated by experts and those interested in the same field of the study to gain the reliability of the research. The results of this research are described as follows. First, four types of impoliteness strategy occur in the students and teacher interaction in the English teaching and learning process. They are positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, sarcasm or mock impoiteness, and withhold politeness. Negative impoliteness becomes the most dominant type used by the students. Meanwhile, bald on record impoliteness does not exist in the utterances. Second, the context of situation happens in the classroom, with students and teacher as the participants. Third, there are three responses which occur in the utterances, they are no response, accepting, and countering the face attack. Countering the face attack appear is defensive countering. Defensive countering becomes the most frequent choice of responses of impoliteness strategy used by the teacher. To sum up, the responses of impolite acts are influenced by the way the face attacks are conveyed and the relationship between the persons doing the face attacks and the addressees