Investigating the Motivational Teaching Strategies of an English Native Speaker Lecturer

Setyawati, Sri Wahyuni (2019) Investigating the Motivational Teaching Strategies of an English Native Speaker Lecturer. Bachelor thesis, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan.

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Abstract

In Indonesia, English is learned as a foreign language. One of the most important factors that can
influence the students‟ achievement learning a foreign language is motivation. Motivational teaching strategies
are effective ways an English lecturer can use to influence students‟ motivation in foreign language learning.
The aims of this research are to investigate the motivational teaching strategies used by an English native
speaker lecturer and to know the students‟ responses toward the motivational teaching strategies used by an
English native speaker lecturer.
The type of this study is a qualitative research. The subjects of this study are an English native speaker
lecturer and 23 students of the third semester of English Education Department, Ahmad Dahlan University in
the academic year of 2019/2020. The researcher uses observation, interview, survey and document for
collecting the data. Then, the researcher uses three instruments namely: observation checklist, interview
guideline, and questionnaire. To analyze the data, the researcher uses qualitative descriptive as the main
analysis and quantitative one as the back up.
Using Dornyei‟s framework of teaching motivational strategies, the result of this study showed that the
English native speaker lecturer used 34 of 48 strategies of motivational teaching strategies by Dornyei (2001).
Of the first category i.e. creating the basic motivational conditions, the English native speaker lecturer applied
9 of 12 strategies, 5 of 11 of the second category (generating initial motivation strategies), 6 of 18 strategies
the third category (maintaining and protecting motivation), and 4 of 7 strategies in the fourth category
(encouraging positive retrospective self-evaluation). Moreover, the English native speaker lecturer did not
apply only few strategies during the teaching because of some considerations. In terms of students‟
responses, the students mostly gave “Often” response toward the motivational teaching strategies used by
the English native speaker lecturer.

Keywords: EFL, Teaching Strategies, Motivational Teaching Strategies

Item Type: Thesis (Bachelor)
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisi / Prodi: Faculty of Letters (Fakultas Sastra) > S1-English Letters(S1-Sastra Inggris)
Depositing User: publikasi uad
Date Deposited: 11 Dec 2019 05:57
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2019 05:57
URI: http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/15859

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