Positive Politeness Strategies Implemented By The Lecturers Of Lambung Mangkurat University

Abstract

Language and teaching are two aspects that cannot be separated to reach the objective of
the lesson. Teaching is not only teaching about content but also the delivery to behave
linguistically through language. This study was conducted to find how the implementation
of positive politeness strategies used by lecturers in teaching English at the English
Department of Lambung Mangkurat UniversityThe researcher used a descriptive
qualitative approach to analyze the data. Therefore, because of this relevancy, the
researcher wanted to get representative results naturally as the process of doing this
researcher related to politeness strategies used by lecturers in the English Department of
FKIP ULM. During the teaching and learning process at the English Department of
Lambung Mangkurat University, it was found that the implementation of positive
politeness strategies by lecturers is relevant to the teaching phases (pre-activity, whileactivity, and post-activity). The application of positive politeness strategies from every
subject showed that three of the lecturers almost used the same strategy where positive
politeness strategies were implemented by showing attention, repeating students' answer,
praising students, and showing gratitude to the students. Therefore, the researcher
suggested that these positive politeness strategies will always be implemented due to
several importances to make the delivery of teaching and learning process runs smoothly.