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*62 This research is a study about students’ politeness in Faculty of Language Education
batch 2012. The research method was quantitative and qualitative method or usually known
as mix method. The quantitative data were collected by using questionnaire, which was made
to measure the students’ politeness. The qualitative data were obtained from interview. The
population of the subject was 161 students. However, this research only involved 33 students.
the questionnaire was distributed to 30 students, and 3 of them were interviewed. All
participants were taken based on convenience sampling. The result of the research on
students’ politeness was shown by the average score of Likert scale. Good level was obtained
on student politeness toward parents with the average score 3.8. Then, the politeness toward
teachers/lecturers had the average score 3.6. The politeness toward older people also got on
average score of 3.6, while the politeness toward younger people was 3.3. The result of
students’ politeness toward friends was good with the average score of 3.6. The students had
also applied the manner of conversation on their daily activities with score of 3.7. In the same
way, students in Faculty of Language and Education also had a good manner on clothing with
score of 4.0. In summary, the students of Faculty of Language Education in
UniversitasMuhammadiyah Yogyakarta had a good level of politeness as shown by the
average of the mean score of 3.6
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