AN ANALYSIS ON POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AT SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES, THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The study was conducted to analyze the politeness strategies used by teachers and students in English classes at School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University. The research described what types of politeness strategies used by teachers and what types of politeness strategies used by students in English classes. This research was qualitative descriptive and quantitative research. The subjects of the study were two English teachers and forty-six students of two English classes at School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University. To collect the data, recording video and interviewing were used. Brown & Levinson’s and Q. Nguyen’s theory of politeness strategies were used in this research. The result of this research showed that there were four main strategies employed by the teachers and students in English classes at School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University. They were bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record strategy, in which positive politeness strategy dominated the politeness strategies used by teachers as well as students during the teaching and learning process.