Abstract:
Harahap, Rizki Maulidia .1402050247. Politeness Strategies used by English
teacher At SMP Bina Satria Mulia Medan. A thesis : English Department.
Faculty of Teacher Training And Education . University Of Muhammadiyah
Sumatera Utara Medan.2018
This study was aimed to investigate types of Politeness strategies used by an
english teacher in the classroom and how does the teacher realized the politeness
strategies and to describe the reasons politeness strategies realized by the teacher
in the classroom. This study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative
research. The source of the data was an English teacher of class VIII in SMP Bina
Satria Mulia Medan. The instrument of this study was video recording . The data
were anlyzed using data descriptive. The findings of the result were that (1) there
were all of politeness strategies namely : Bald on record (55%), Positive
Politeness (31%), Negative politeness (6%) and off record (11%). (2) Bald on
record was realized because it made close relationship between teacher and
students, Positive politeness was realized because to give respect to the students
during teaching learning process, Negative politeness was realized because to
maintain closer friend among them, Off record was realized because the teacher
wants the students more understand to the teacher just by giving a clue in teaching
learning process.
