1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
A good communication in the classroom is one of the requisites to reach successful in teaching learning process. When we talk,we need to find strategies
not to disturb or hurt other people. Politeness strategy is a way to keep a good relationship and communication with others.
Politeness is important to be used in daily conversation, including in the speech acts of request. Sometimes, students feel confused in applying expressions
of request between students and students or students and teachers. Therefore, as an English teacher, it is important for him to apply and to teach the appropriate
expressions of speech acts of request based on the participants‟ sex, role, age and status Brown,P. and Levinson. S.C. : 1987 .
It is important to note that politeness strategies have to be considered in a context to see how they are intended. For example people within peer groups use
more direct forms to perform requests but it would not be accurate to say that they are less polite. Different cultures may also favour a more direct or indirect style of
communication but this does not mean that some languages are more or less polite than others.
Many types of contextual variables have to be taken into account the speakers´ status, power, role, the nature of the circumstances etc.. Politeness then
seems to become essentially a question of appropriateness as we enter a conversation and continue with it at every turn Fraser 1990.
1.3 Statement of the Problems
The statements of the problem that I want to discuss in this research are : 1
How do the students of State Senior High School 1 Tayu apply the politeness strategy in the classroom requests?
2 What kinds of politeness strategies are used in the classroom requests?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of this research are: 1
to observe the use of politeness strategies in speech acts of request based on Brown and Levinson‟s theory 1987 between students and students and
between students and teachers. 2
to describe the kinds of politeness strategies the students of State Senior High School 1 Tayu used in classroom requests based on Brown and
Levinson‟s theory 1987 .
1.5 Significance of the Study
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