Teachers’ humor as a communication strategyin creating positive environment in English course

Abstract

This study investigates teachers’ humor as a communication strategyin creating positive environment in terms of interaction between the teacher and the students in teaching and learning process at Makassar English Course.The aims of the study are to find out the types of humor that are appropriate in English course and to find out the impacts of humorin creating positive environment in English course. This research consisted of five students that were interviewed as a subject of the research. In collecting data, this research used some procedures namely observation and interview. The recordings were transcribed and analyzed by making use of related the types of humor used by the teacher and the impact of teacher’s humor in creating positive environment in English course. The first finding showed that the EFL teacher used all of the types of appropriate humor, namely related humor, unrelated humor, self-disparaging, and unplanned humor. Furthermore, the writer found the new types of humor that occurred by the teacher namely plan feedback humor and remind humor.The second finding showed that the teacher who used humor makes the students easy to getting the knowledge, humor reduces tension, students are more comfortable in teaching learning process, students interact well with their teacher, students was more enthusiastic in teaching learning process, students attendance became encouraged, and students are not sleepy.