The Politeness of English Teacher's Utterances Inside and Outside Classroom

This study is about politeness strategies of the English teacher entitled: The Politeness of Teacher’s Utterances Inside and Outside the Learning Process. This study was conducted at MTs. Mimbarul Huda Menggala Bumiayu. The aim of this study is to find the strategies and the dominant strategies of politeness that are used by the teacher inside and outside the classroom. This study was a descriptive qualitative study that describes the result of the analysis of the teacher’s utterances. The teacher’s utterances both inside and outside classroom were used as the object of the study. In collecting data, the teacher’s utterances inside and outside the classroom were recorded and the result of the record was transcribed. After that, the data were analyzed with the strategy of politeness and classified into the strategy of politeness. The result of the analysis of the teacher’s utterances inside the classroom contains seventy three utterances with ten maxims of politeness by Leech (2014). After going through data analysis process, it can be concluded that there are seven maxims of politeness used by the English teacher inside the classroom. The strategies that were used were Tact with the percentage of 47.95%, Obligation S to O with the percentage of 27.29%, Generosity with the percentage of 17.80%, Approbation with the percentage of 2.74%, Modesty with percentage of 1.37%, Obligation O to S with the percentage of 1.37%, and Sympathy with the percentage of 1.37%. Meanwhile, the result of the analysis of the teacher’s utterances outside the classroom were twenty utterances with five strategies and the strategies that were used are Tact with the percentage of 50%, Generosity with the percentage of 15%, Modesty with percentage 15%, Approbation with percentage 10%, Obligation of S to O with the percentage of 10%. Based on the result of the research, the writer can conclude that Tact maxim was the most dominant maxim of the politeness strategies that was used by English teacher inside and outside classroom.