THE TEACHER’S POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH CLASS AT THE FIFTH GRADE OF AL HIDAYAH ISLAMIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN SINGGAHAN TUBAN

The purpose of this study was to describe the politeness strategies teacher use with their students for EFL classroom interactions and their benefits (function) to the learning process. The researchers chose to get data from the fifth grade of Al Hidayah Islamic Elementary School, Singgahan Tuban in the academic year 2020/2021. The subjects was the the English teacher who taught at the fifth grade students Al Hidayah Islamic Elementary School, Singgahan Tuban. This research was descriptive qualitative research by collecting data and observation. The data of this research was taken in natural setting during classroom teaching learning process. The data analysis was done by applying several steps: transcribing, identifying coding, classifying, describing, interpreting and concluding. Researchers used four politeness strategies based on the theory of Brown and Levinson. Bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, off record (indirect)). The findings indicated that the teacher used 16 utterances of politeness strategies consisting of: 5 utterances of 4 different types in bald on-record strategy, 7 utterances of 5 different types in positive politeness strategy, 3 utterances in different types of negative politeness strategy and only 1 utterance in different type of off-record strategy