Politeness Strategies in an Indonesian Graduate EFL Classroom

Abstract

In teaching English as a foreign language, politeness has become a major issue. It is regarded as one way to maintain effective classroom interaction. This research aims to analyse the types of politeness strategies used by University Graduate Students in Indonesian EFL Classroom and factors influencing politeness strategies by University Graduate Students in Indonesian EFL Classroom. Qualitative research methods were used in this study to analyse politeness strategies used in the discussion performed by University Graduate Students in Indonesian EFL Classroom. Data was collected through recording and observation techniques to find out more about the success of politeness strategies in speaking, especially in the discussion context. Data was taken from the University Graduate Students during teaching and learning process in the classroom. The participants studied in this research included seven people who took Language in Use course in the 1st Semester. Data analysis used Brown and Levinson (1987) theory that classified four politeness strategies. Based on the research, it was found that there are three types of politeness strategies occurred in the speech of University Graduate Students in Indonesian EFL Classroom which are shown in 26 speech data which includes four off-record, five on-record-negative politeness, and seventeen on-record-positive politeness utterances. It is also can be seen that the most dominant strategy used by University Graduate Students in Indonesian EFL Classroom was On-Record-Positive Politeness. Then, factors that influence politeness used by University Graduate Students in Indonesian EFL Classroom are payoff and relevant circumstances.



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Destiyana, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Ahmad Bukhori Muslim, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia

Paper Information
Conference: ACCS2024
Stream: Language

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To cite this article:
Destiyana ., & Muslim A. (2024) Politeness Strategies in an Indonesian Graduate EFL Classroom ISSN: 2187-4751 – The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 27-40) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2187-4751.2024.4
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2187-4751.2024.4


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