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The Politeness Strategies Used by The Participants of “Topic of Discussion Youtube Channel Shusan Ayu Areke Putri; Syahrial, Syahrial; Elfrida, Elfrida
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol. 8 No. 3 (2024): Journal of English Education and Teaching
Publisher : UNIB Press

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33369/jeet.8.3.653-662

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Politeness strategies is an important aspect of communication. By applying politeness strategies, it shows that the speaker respects the hearer. This research aimed to find out the types of politeness strategies used by the participant of “the topic of discussion YouTube channel” based on the theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978).  Now days, politeness we can find in programs or television. There are a lot of programs on television ranging from music shows, soap operas to talk variety shows. It can be in many forms including in a program on television and a podcast on a YouTube channels but in this podcast the viewers can get many information and knowledge about relationship between the speaker and the hearer to polite communication. The type of this research is qualitative research. In this research, the researchers used the documentation and a table as the instrument. The technique of data analysis was; First identification the types of politeness strategy; second, classification, analyzing, and categorizing classification last, making a conclusion and suggestion. The result of the study showed that there were four strategies used by the participant of the podcast, namely bald on record strategy, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, and off record strategy. In conclusion, positive politeness was the most often strategy. The positive politeness strategy shows closeness, friendliness, and solidarity between the participants. This research can be useful for future researcher who is interested about politeness strategies.
Error Analysis in Pronouncing English Words Containing Diphthong Sounds Made by EFL Students Suciati, Tia; Kurniawan, Ildi; Elfrida, Elfrida
Journal of English Education and Teaching Vol. 8 No. 2 (2024): Journal of English Education and Teaching
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33369/jeet.8.2.414-428

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This research aims to find out the ability in pronouncing diphthong sounds /ai/, /ei/and /oi/ the English Department Students of the English Education Study Program at the University of Bengkulu. This research was descriptive quantitative analysis. The population was the fourth-semester students' English study program, University of Bengkulu. The sample was selected by Random Sampling, totalling 38 students who were taken randomly from each class. The data were collected by several pronunciation tests with English words which contain English diphthongs /ai/, /ei/, /oi/. Data collection was supported by audio recording. The data obtained was then analyzed using the Audacity application with the help of Google Translate as a reference for the pronunciation received. The result of this study showed that most English students’ pronunciation of the word diphthongs was bad pronunciation; the three diphthongs got more than half of the students' mispronunciations. In conclusion, the ability in pronouncing the diphthong sounds /ai/, /ei/ , and /oi/ was poor and the dominant respondent's pronunciation error was diphthong /oi/. For future researchers, it is recommended to continue this research by investigating the problems of English students from all types of English diphthongs with a larger sample and investigating the causal factors.