POLITENESS STRATEGIES PERFORMED BY TEACHERS TO EFFECTIVELY ASSIST CHILDREN WITH AUTISM IN THEIR LEARNING PROCESS
Abstract: The paper discusses
the politeness strategies conducted by teachers of autism centre in Surakarta
in supporting them doing their jobs effectively. They are professionals who
care and treat children with autism for their cognitive as well as
psychomotoric development. Data were collected from four learning processes
performed by four different female teachers with a different child for each.
The analysis was carried out to see how politeness strategies selected by the
teachers help them in performing effective assisting and learning process for
the kids. The results show that politeness strategies were conducted by the
teachers in two modes—verbally and non-verbally. They were exploited to
accommodate the skill transfer to the children with autism effectively. The
autism condition of each child governed each teacher to select the types of the
politeness—in which bald on strategy dominated the exploitation, followed by
positive and negative politeness. In addition, no teacher chose off record
strategy for her class. This exploitation is considered effective due to the
exceptional condition of the children. Clear and direct utterances which
encourage their self esteem are good choice for them. Such utterances in that
features can be accommodated by those three types of politeness strategies in
either verbal or non-verbal mode.
Author: Sugini, Djatmika, Maryadi
Journal Code: jpantropologigg160008
