The positive politeness strategies used on whatsapp conversation between student and teacher in English learning at al-luthfah Islamic school

This Study discusses WhatsApp conversations between students and teachers used while learning English used in teaching activities to determine the type of politeness used by students in WhatsApp conversations during English learning at the al-Lutfah Islamic school. This research uses descriptive qualitative as the research method. The research subjects are students and teachers, while the objects of the study are politeness strategies in WhatsApp conversation that may contain politeness. The data of this research is the WhatsApp conversation containing politeness strategies. It uses observation and takes notes to collect the data. The data analyzing method is agih method. The participants of this research are teachers and students at Al-Luthfah Islamic school. The transcriptions were analyzed and discussed based on the politeness of Brown and Levinson (1987). This study reveals the kinds of politeness types used by Al-Luthfah Islamic students to encode politeness or politeness in the form of several messages when replying to several statements in the WhatsApp group. These expressions are in the form of greetings, gratitude, ask questions, express opinions, and several forms of these messages are stages of obtaining data, identifying data, looking for standards, classifying types of politeness, and finding their function of the politeness used and analyzing the data