THE USE OF POLITENESS BY STUDENTS DURING DISCUSSION SESSION IN EFL CLASS (A Descriptive Qualitative Study in Fifth Semester of English Department of IAIN Bengkulu, Academic Year 2018/2019)

Arifani Miladesia, Aulia (2019) THE USE OF POLITENESS BY STUDENTS DURING DISCUSSION SESSION IN EFL CLASS (A Descriptive Qualitative Study in Fifth Semester of English Department of IAIN Bengkulu, Academic Year 2018/2019). Other thesis, IAIN Bengkulu.

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Aulia Arifani Miladesia 2019 “The Use of Politeness by Students during Discussion Session in EFL Class (A Descriptive Qualitative Study in Fifth Semester of English Department of IAIN Bengkulu, Academic Year 2018/2019)”. Thesis : English Letters Study Program, Islamic Education and Tadris Faculty, IAIN Bengkulu. Advisor : 1. Riswanto, Ph.D. 2. Detti Lismayanti, M.Hum. Keyword : Politeness, students, discussion, attitude, EFL Class. The aim of this study was to find out about the use of politeness by students during discussion session in the class. The problem that mostly missed from teaching-learning process is politeness during discussion. The design of this research is descriptive-qualitative with population of the students on fifth semester of English Department IAIN Bengkulu in EFL Class (TEFL). The sample of this research was class 5A, 5B, 5C, and 5D with about 30 students each class. EFL Class is a class that use most English as majoring medium of instruction. In EFL Class, students are taught about what learning in English look like, such as manners, language, and action, including politeness. The instrument used was field notes, video recording, observation checklist, and documentation. This research focused on student discussion in the class. Researcher observed class activity and what happen during discussion, such as student’s activity, group’s attention, concentration, and attitude. Researcher matched what happen in the class with table of student utterances, observation checklist, made field notes, and give a brief question for complete the data. The result of this research showed that students in this semester did not realize that they use politeness during discussion session. There are some category for politeness, like exploratory, evaluation, desultory, disputational, and question. For example, Ok, we are from group two, and today we were going to explain about our material is exploratory, Have you opened the page? Is question, That is our presentation today, thanks for your attention. Let’s close this presentation by reciting hamdalah is evaluation. Student did not realize these sentences is kind of politeness. They just want to deliver the material to audience in the class. Besides that, they did not use politeness because they did not know what is it and how to do it. They just use English straightforwardly and focus on ability to speak more than care about advance manner such as politeness. From explanation above, it can be conclude that student of Fifth semester of English Department IAIN Bengkulu did not realize that they use politeness, but did not use these as full as possible.

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