POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION IN GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING CONTEXT

This study deals with politeness strategies in teacher-student interactions in guidance and counseling context. The objectives of this research were to:1) describe the types of politeness strategis used in teacher-student interaction. 2) to elaborate the type of politeness dominantly used in teacher-student interaction. 3) to explain the reason of types of politeness strategies realized in that way. The source of the data were teacher and students at SMK Teknologi Namira Medan. The data of this research were the utterances of teacher-student interaction SMK Teknologi Namira Medan. The research design was qualitative research one. The instrument of data collection use audio tape recorder to observe the subjects. The result reveals that (1) The type of politeness strategies are used in teacher-student interaction in guidance and counseling context at SMK Teknologi Namira Medan is bald on-record strategy, positive politeness strategy and negative politeness strategy. (2) The dominant type of politeness strategy used in teacher-student interaction in guidance and counseling context at SMK Teknologi Namira Medan is positive politeness strategy which is 55%. (3) bald on record realized because of the urgency, positive politeness strategy realized to reduce the social distance, and the negative politeness strategy realized to maintain the social distance. The realization type of politeness strategies that found in teacher-student interaction in guidance and counseling context at SMK Teknologi Namira Medan are Cases of FTA-oriented bald on record usage for Bald on-record strategy; seek agreement, be optimistic and give (or ask for) reason for Positive politeness strategy; hedges or question for Negative politeness strategy.