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This study aims to find out the types of politeness strategies in EFL classroom interactions between teachers and students, and to know the most frequent types of positive and negative politeness used in EFL classroom interactions. This study applied a descriptive qualitative research design to explore the politeness phenomena, especially positive and negative politeness in EFL classroom interaction. The participants of this study were 2 English teachers and 75 students in three classes at SMP Ihsaniyah Tegal; each class consisted of 25 students. The primary sources of data were observation and documentations—field notes and transcription of audio recording. The transcriptions were analyzed and discussed based on the theory of politeness by Brown and Levinson (1987). The data collection was carried out for five meetings in three classes with two different English teachers. The results of this study showed there were a total of 60 utterances containing four politeness strategies; bald on record strategy, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, and off record strategy. The most frequent of positive and negative politeness strategy employed by teachers and students in five meetings is positive politeness strategy.

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Politeness Teaching and Learning Process EFL Classroom

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