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.