Politeness strategies expressed by EFL undergraduate students in Whatsapp Group interactions

Hartini, Isma Nur Sri (2023) Politeness strategies expressed by EFL undergraduate students in Whatsapp Group interactions. Undergraduate Thesis thesis, UIN K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid Pekalongan.

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Abstract

To create a comfortable conversation in learning activities, it is necessary to use politeness in communication. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the learning activities had to be shifted from face-to-face learning to online learning activities. However, interactions and communications in face-to-face and online learning are certainly very different. Based on this phenomenon, this study aims to analyze the interactions of EFL undergraduate students in WhatsApp Group which focuses on analyzing the politeness strategies expressed by students. The participants of this study were the sixth-semester students of English Education Department UIN K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid Pekalongan who joined the same WhatsApp group. The data were collected through document analysis and semi-structured interviews which were then analyzed using the politeness strategies theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987). The findings from this study show there are three types of politeness strategies used by EFL undergraduate students in WhatsApp Group interactions. The strategies used by students are bald-on record strategies, positive politeness strategies, and negative politeness strategies. Positive politeness strategy was strategy that mostly used by EFL undergraduate students in WhatsApp Group interactions.

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