Teachers’ Politeness Strategies in Motivating Students to Learn English

Abstract

Many students are faced problems when they learn English language as a foreign language. It is part of English teachers' job to solve the problems in teaching learning process directly by motivating students. Though in the fact, teachers may not always be possible to motivate all students. But however, this should never discourage teachers from trying to motivate their students. This study explores politeness strategies used by the teachers in motivating students to learn English in the classrooms, based on Brown and Levinson's Politeness Strategies. The purpose of this study is to find out what types of politeness strategies that are used by the teachers and how the teachers' politeness strategies realized in motivating students to learn English. The action was applied at Junior High School. The respondents are three non-native English teachers of SMPN 4 Langsa, and 80 students in three classes.The research conducted in duration 2x80 minutes English lessons in each of classes.The data is collected through descriptive qualitative data, and used instrument observation, video-recorded, and interview. The result showed that the teachers employed positive politeness, negative politeness, and bald on-record strategies as well. They used positive politeness especially to make good interaction between teacher and students while teaching learning process in order to encourage students motivation, they used negative politeness to avoid imposition to the students in learning, and they used Bald on-record when efficiency is necessary and taskoriented.

Native English Teacher’s Politeness Realizations in EFL Classroom Interaction

“…Further, the native English teacher in this research mostly used bald on record when somethings needed to be responded quickly, such as giving instruction or task-oriented and sharing important information. It was in line with Elisdawati et al, (2018) who outlined that the teacher often used bald on record strategy when efficiency was necessary (task-oriented) and also information needed to be shared quickly. Although bald on record risked to damage the hearer's self-image, it could make the students be aware toward their faults so that they would evaluate themselves.…”

“…Previous studies on the realization of politeness strategies in classroom interaction, such as in Peng et al, (2014); Manik and Hutagaol (2015); Agustina and Cahyono (2016); Djatmika et al, (2016); Elisdawati et al, (2018); and Nashruddin et al, (2018) merely investigated the aspects of politeness used by the non-native English teachers. Those related studies reveal that many studies have been conducted in the field of politeness theory in which they merely investigated politeness aspects used by the participants who shared the same culture.…”

Politeness Strategies of the Main Characters in the Fault in Our Stars Novel

“…A means is needed to reduce the cost of FTA. FTA menaces the stability of communication's intensity, and in this case politeness can be regarded as a way to restore or prevent the damage of the FTA (Elisdawati, Husein & Setia, 2018).…”

The Use of Politeness Strategies by Indonesian Vs Malaysian Student Debaters in the 2018 World Schools Debating Championship (WSDC)

“…2011), debate show (Ali, R. M. S., & Tareq, N., 2018), reality talk show (Rudiansyah, R., & Rukmini, D., 2018). While, the use of politeness strategies applied in English Language Teaching (ELT) these are teachers' politeness as a predictor of students' self-esteem and academic performance (Uzair-ul-Hassan, M., & Farooq, S., 2017) and for motivating students to learn English (Elisdawati, Y., Husein, R., & Setia, E., 2018), and it built positive values in students, (Aulia N., K., 2017) were also used to support this study. Thus, there was also used politeness strategies analyzed in English Book that the comparison of politeness components between New Headway Intermediate Student's (Ibnus, N., & Mujiyanto, Y., 2018).…”