students tends to use indonesian rather than english. This is a concern for teachers in teaching in
class by speaking polite language.
Keywords: Language Politeness, Teacher, Teaching English
learn a foreign language, not only speaking This study describes a literature review
but also writing but also how to behave. which is the basis for the theory that is used
The pragmatic knowledge of students as a reference to support and clarify
and teachers will influence the interactions research. From the problem to be studied, a
between teachers and students, what their literature review described from the title of
behavior and responses are like in the research is analysis of teacher politeness
different situations and contexts. in speaking while teaching english is: the
Pragmatic skill is defined as the section of linguistics that discusses the
speaker's capability to get the context of relationship between the relations outside
conversation. The pragmatic aspect of the language and speech through the use of
social interaction in students' awareness in the situation in which it is spoken is called
the classroom. The challenge in integrating pragmatics. In linguistics, pragmatics is a
pragmatics into the syllabus is finding part of semiotics. the science (theory) of
useful teaching materials. symbols and signs.
The researcher took the title of the Leech (1993:8) asserts that pragmatics is
research based on the description above, the study of meaning in speech situations.
entitled: "An Analysis of Teachers' the meaning as a relationship involving
Language Politeness during Teaching three sides (triadic), that is, narratives,
English", using qualitative descriptive speakers, and situations that background of
research. Whereas we know descriptive speech events. From the opinion of the
qualitative is analyzing. Qualitative experts above regarding pragmatics,
Method (Sugiyono, (2013:15) is a research generally that pragmatics is the lesson
method posit on the philosophy of about language between speech and speech
postpositivism, apply to take up the partners which involves speech event. So,
situation of natural things, where the meaning in pragmatics is more than what is
researcher is the key instrument. told by a speaker but looked at the meaning
Qualitative research methods are often beyond the context of the language until
called natural research because the research speaking speakers and partners about the
is carried out in natural conditions incidents of speech are not inseparable.
Qualitative methods are used to obtain One aspect that is very concerned about
detailed conclusions, data that contain the speech and speech when communicating is
true meaning. language politeness. The politeness in
Here is the researcher using the question is an attempt to choose the
Politeness Principle Theory of Leech utterances made by the narrator which aims
(2014). Leech (2014) groups the principle to facilitate communication as expected.
of politeness into ten thimbles, namely: 1) Lee (2016) states that politeness is
Opinion-Reticence Maxim; 2) Tact Maxim; formed to improve, defend, or protect the
3) Modesty Maxim; 4) Approbation face/self-image of the speech partner.
Maxim; 5) Obligation Of O To S Maxim; Pramujiono & Nurjati (2017); Rizal (2017)
6) Obligation of S to O Maxim; 7) states that the use of polite language is
Agreement Maxim; 8) Generosity Maxim; realized through verbal speech acts that
9) Feeling Reticence Maxim; and 10) make students feel comfortable in the
Sympathy Maxim. learning process and this is also expected to
and educating process?; 3) How do teachers Bunga Rampai Raya, Simalingkar B, Kec.
apply the principle of politeness in the Medan Tuntungan, Medan City, North
learning and educating process? Sumatra, 20353. A research instrument is a
B. RESEARCH METHOD tool used to collect data. Here the
The research method used in this researcher uses an observation instrument.
research is qualitative research by The stages in this research data collection
Sugiyono. The qualitative method is a technique are as follows: a) Asking
research method posit on the philosophy permission from the English subject
of postpositivism, apply to take up the teacher, so that researchers are allowed
situation of natural things, where the to observeteaching and learning activities
researcher is the key instrument (Sugiyono in class. b) Setting up tools to collect data.
2013:15). That is, qualitative researchers, c) Record all speech that occurs in learning
relate to nature. Next, the researcher activities. d) Analyze the findings with
collects the data and reports it to the observation techniques. Observation is the
findings descriptively. step in of watching somebody/something
Several teachers who teach English accurately for a period of time, specifically
using polite language to students are the to learn something
population of this study. Data collection After collecting the data, the researcher
techniques in this research are to use will analyze the data by: a. Researchers will
recording techniques and note-taking use Leech's (2014) theory, namely in his
techniques. The recording technique is theory he has 10 Bilal to analyze the data.
done by recording the teacher's activities b. Then the researcher will use Bilal one by
while teaching. The notetaking technique is one in Leech's theory. To analyze the
done by noting the politeness of the problems that exist in the data.
teacher's language when teaching. C. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to Considering of the consequences of the
find out the politeness language used by review, there are seven maxims of
teachers when teaching in class, whether politeness in languagethat are often used by
the language politeness methods and teachers at SMP Negeri 21 Medan. The
techniques are appropriate or not based on maxims are 1) Opinion reticente maxim, 2)
good language politeness theory, which has Agreement maxim, 3) Sympathy maxim, 4)
been explained in Chapter II. So, to find out Generosity maxim, 5) Approbation maxim,
the results of the study, the researcher 6) Obligation of S to O Maxim, 7) Tact
concluded that the qualitative research maxim.
design was appropriate to be used to In the following, the researcher explain
examine a study, especially "AN the findings and data that have been
ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS' obtained after conducting research at SMP
LANGUAGE POLITENESS DURING Negeri 21 Medan. After the information
TEACHING ENGLISH". Was gathered, the researcher groups each
This research is aimed at English data into each maxim. The following is a
teachers who teach at SMP NEGERI 21 calssification table.
MEDAN. This school is located on Jl.
Maxim of language politeness Leech (2014)
Maxims. Teachers use this maxim in the Maxim of sympathy and the Maxim of
learning process because they express their apology with 1 utterance each with a
opinions more in the form of some percentage of 13.12% each.
information and solutions. The sympathetic maxim is in suitable
The maxim of appreciation and the with the guidelines of politeness in
maxim of agreement with each other. Each language (Leech2014:93). This maxim has
percentage 18.75%. In the third position, the principle that the speaker deserves to
there are 2 maxims, namely the maxim of express condolences or condolences to the
wisdom and the maxim of generosity witha interlocutor who gets a disaster in the form
percentage of 6.25% each. Fourth, there are of a sentence of sympathy, this attitude will
2 maxims, namely the maxim of sympathy be considered by the interlocutor as a polite
and the maxim of apology with a action. While the apology maxim has the
percentage of 3.12% each. From the results principle of increasing apologies to the
of the study using the 7 maxims above, the interlocutor, in the learning process the
researcher can see that some maxims have teacher uses an apology utterance for using
not been used by teachers or speakers at all. two students as examples when carrying out
Teachers who have apply seven maxims the learning process. Politeness is needed in
with a points of 100% are more raised than learning and educating process because one
other maxims, this could be visible fromthe of the causes of misunderstandings in
consequences of our research. communicating in the classroom starts from
Conclusion And Suggetions the inappropriateness of the politeness of
The use of politeness in language is used the language used by the teacher in
to obtain the outcomes of the description by teaching. If the use is appropriate then the
English teachers at UPT SMPN 21 MEDAN results of communication will be obtained
in class VIII.5 during the English teaching between teachers and students.
and learning process, dataobtained as many Considering the discussion of study
as 32 utterances using 7 (seven) Maxims related to language politeness, the
including:1) Opinion reticente maxim, 2) researcher provides the following
Agreement maxim, 3) Sympathy maxim, 4) suggestions: 1) As a formal institution, it is
Generosity maxim, 5) Approbation maxim, polite and schools should use good and
6) Obligation of S to O Maxim, 7) Tact good language, 2) Not only schools but
maxim 8) Modesty Maxim 9) Obligation Of institutions that are formal and non-formal
O To S Maxim 10) Feeling Reticence must apply good language politeness, 3)
Maxim. After it was explained that the Suggestions for other researchers,
Maxim that was dominantly used by the researchers hope that more researchers will
English teacher was Maxim of opinion, examine the useof politeness in language.
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