Teachers' Teaching Technique in Motivating the Students

Abstract

This study was conducted to find out the teacher's teaching technique to motivate English Department students be active in the classroom. In this qualitative study, one research question was raised: “How does teacher's teaching techniques are used to motivate the students in the classroom?” The participants of the study were ten teachers from ED (English Department) participated in this study. The data for the study was collected from an unstructured interview with the teachers. The analysis of the data showed that teachers should engage in motivating their students to learn. Motivation refers to reasons that underline a constellation of closely related technique, interests, and action. This paper argues for an approach about teachers' teaching technique in motivating their students. From the research, it is found that most of teacher gave reward in order to stimulate their student to learn. There were five ways that teachers did to develop student's ability in the classroom. They were presentation assignment, personal approach for student's psychologist, oral feedback and written feedback, personal experiences to motivate the students, appraisal and reward to appreciate student's participation.