Title: Students' Politeness Strategies in Text-Base Inquiries
Authors: Marie Ruffie C. Mier
Volume: 9
Issue: 10
Pages: 464-471
Publication Date: 2025/10/28
Abstract:
This study aimed to describe the two categories of students' politeness and strategies used in their inquiry through text messaging or short message service (SMS): positive and negative politeness. In addition, as language use relates to differences between men and women, the study looked into the strategies employed by the two groups. It determined whether there is any distinct relationship between male and female students' use of L1 and L2 and the politeness strategies they used in inquiring about their instructor through text messaging. With sixty (60) student inquiry messages, the study was conducted following the qualitative and quantitative research design. Data analysis also included coding, interpretation, and inferential statistics to determine whether the results were meaningful or coincidental. The chi-square technique was used to achieve this. Findings from corpus analysis of the inquiry messages through text revealed that Bukidnon State University, College of Education-Bachelor of Secondary Education (BukSU COE-BSE) students selected negative politeness strategies more frequently than positive ones (305 to 210 times) in their L1 and L2. Also, there is a significant relationship between gender and the use of positive politeness in L1. In contrast, no significant relationship between gender and the use of positive strategy in L2 and negative strategy in both L1 and L2 were found.