Abstract:
This research was deals with the types of politeness strategy used by male and
female teachers in EFL classroom interaction. The objectives of this research were
to find out the types of politeness strategy used by male and female teachers, to
described politeness strategy realized differently by male and female teachers and
to investigated why politeness strategy realized by male and female teachers.
Descriptive qualitative method was used in this research. Source of the data was
obtained from male and female utterances in the classroom interaction. In
collecting the data, the researcher making observation, interview and field note,
writing script from the observation, selecting and identifying types of politeness
strategy used by male and female teacher in the EFL classroom interaction. The
data were analyzed by some steps such as, data reduction, data display, drawing
and verifying conclusion. The finding showed four types of politeness strategy
used by teachers. The strategies were positive politeness, negative politeness,
bald-on record and off record. Positive politeness used by the teachers to consider
positive face of the students, negative politeness which was used to deliver
utterances in most polite ways, bald on-record used to convey utterances clearly
and briefly, off record was used to avoid students’ positive face
