The influence of teacher’s language impoliteness in triggering students’ bullying behavior

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of teacher’s language impoliteness in triggering students’ bullying behavior. The participants are the primary school students in Makassar by using purposive sampling approach. The participants are students who have bullying cases as a perpetrator in the last one month. Observation, in-depth interview, and questionnaire are used to collect the data. Data Analysis technique employed was simple linear regression analysis. This study shows that impolite language uttered by the teacher influences students’ bullying behaviors. Students who are used to hearing these impolite utterances from their teachers tend to commit bullying behavior verbally at schools since they tend to consider this behavior as an acceptable behavior.

Factors Influencing the Language Politeness Behavior of The Z Generation

“…However, various studies have examined that the characteristics of Generation Z are considered unsuitable for the workplace, such as being individualistic, non-collaborative, and having communication patterns that are deemed ineffective and lacking in verbal and non-verbal politeness (Strawser, Smith, & Rubenking, 2021). Communication is one of the supporting factors for success, and various factors are causing the communication patterns of Generation Z to be considered impolite (Mantasiah R, Hasmawati, & Umar, 2020). If such communication patterns are not controlled and developed properly, it poses risks to Generation Z's personal, social, and career aspects (Iorgulescu, 2016).…”

“…Older generations usually cannot collaborate with the Z gen because they perceive them to have impolite communication patterns (Gabrielova & Buchko, 2021;Seemiller & Grace, 2016). The Z gen is believed to have poor communication skills and no basic communication skills (eye contact) (Farida of both speaking and behaving are different based on their religion and culture or ethnicity (Ayeni, 2021;Mantasiah R, Hasmawati, & Umar, 2020).…”