Abstract:
This study deals with the analysis of politeness strategies used by male and female
teachers in teaching and learning process. This study attempts two answer the two
formulation of the problems, namely: (1) what types of politeness strategies are
used by male and female teachers and (2) how are politeness strategies used by
male and female teachers that occur in teaching and learning process. This study
was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The analyzing of the data
started from observing the students and teachers when process of teaching and
learning is conducting and also recording the process of teaching and learning
process and then transcribing the utterances of male and female teachers in
teaching and learning process. Based on the analysis it was found that there were
four types of politeness strategies occur in teaching and learning process. They
were four bald on record, nineteen positive politeness, four negative politeness
and two off the record. Politeness strategies occur when the speaker and the
listener have interaction or conversation. The researcher suggests the next
researcher develop this research by using a different object such as movie, speech,
and also from daily activity or daily conversation.
