AN ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE POLITENESS IN EFL CLASSROOM

Salsabila, Dias Aulia. 2022. 1618500040 : “An Analysis of The Use of Positive and Negative Politeness in EFL Classroom”. Research Project. Strata 1 Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Pancasakti University Tegal. First Advisor is Masfuad Edy, M.Pd and Second Advisor is Noeris Meiristiani, M.Pd. Key words: Politeness, Teaching and Learning process, EFL Classroom. The aims of this research to find out the types of politeness strategies found in EFL classroom interaction between teachers and students, and to know the most frequent types of positive and negative politeness used in EFL classroom interaction between teachers and students. This research applied a descriptive qualitative research design to explore the politeness phenomena, especially positive and negative politeness in EFL classroom interaction. The participants of this research were 2 English teachers and 75 students in three classes at SMP Ihsaniyah Tegal. The primary sources of data were observation and documentations; field notes and transcription of audio recording. The data were analyzed and discussed based on the theory of politeness of Brown and Levinson (1987). The result showed there were a total of 60 utterances containing four politeness strategies; 23 utterances of bald on record strategy, 28 utterances of positive politeness strategy, 7 utterances of negative politeness strategy, and 2 utterances of off record strategy. The researcher found that the most frequent of positive and negative politeness strategy employed by teacher and students in five meetings is positive politeness strategy. There are 28 utterances (46%) of positive politeness strategy used by teacher and students during teaching and learning process in EFL classroom, while the negative politeness strategy only found 7 utterances (11%) used by teacher and students in EFL classroom. In this research, the teachers had high solidarity with the students and wanted to get in touch with the students well, so the teachers applied a politeness strategy. This application of a politeness strategy can encourage students to be more aware and active in teaching-learning activity and to respect each other as teacher and students. Furthermore, the teachers can establish a respectful teacher-student relationship and build a more pleasant classroom atmosphere