The Analysis of Positive Politeness Jeff Bleckner’s Movie Beyond the Blackboard and Its Application For Teaching Speaking in Junior High School

Abstract

This study aims to find the types of positive politeness found in the Beyond the Blackboard Movie and to describe the application of the positive politeness form found in the movie in teaching speaking. This study uses descriptive qualitative. In collecting the data, the researchers finding the movie, a downloading movie and manuscripts, watching the movie, reading the manuscript, and finding the data. While in analyzing the data, the researchers classified the data, lists all positive politeness, explains the utterances by the characters of Beyond the Blackboard movie, make the analysis, make conclusions and application.The result shows that there are 41utterances from the total politeness strategies. The most dominant kind of positive politeness is Noticing and attending to the hearer (his interest, wants, needs, and goods). Educational value can be applied in teaching speaking at junior high school. The reason that Notice was found the most in the research is that in the movie many dialogues or conversations contain Notice's sentences. The Notice sentence was expressed from a teacher to students or students to a teacher in the Beyond the Blackboard movie. Function of Notice is used to inform people of caring of the important thing. The positive politeness form found in the analysis can be applied in teaching speaking.