TEACHERS POLITENESS STRATEGIES TO STUDENTS COMPLIANCE

This study aims to find out the politeness strategies used by the teachers and how the politeness affects to the students compliance. The focus is on directive and expressive speech acts. The subjects of this study were two teachers and the students of class II-A and II-B of one elementary school in Medan. The data was gathered by video audio recording the teachers utterances and the students compliances to them in order to find the teachers using politeness strategies and the students compliances to the teachers utterances. In the data analysis, it is found that 1) the teachers used four maxims in their communication to the students. They are tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim and agreement maxim. It is not found that the teachers used modesty maxim and sympathy maxim. 2) The teachers were dominantly used tact maxim in their directive speech acts to the students. 3) Children pragmatic competence and positive emotions were the factors that affected the students compliances to the teachers polite utterances.