Muslikah. 2018. The Analysis of Teacher’s Motivation Strategies in Teaching
English of SMA Al-Islami Nurul Ma’ad Banjarbaru. Thesis. English
Education Department, Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty.
Advisors: (I) Nani Hizriani,MA., (II) Afifah Linda Sari, S.S., M. Pd.
Keywords: Teacher’s motivational strategies, Teaching English
The research discussed about the analysis of teacher’s motivation
strategies toward the tenth grade students learning English attitude at SMA AlIslami
Nurul Ma’ad. The research problems are: 1) What are English teacher
strategies used to motivate the tenth grade students on teaching learning process,
2) How does the teacher apply motivation strategies toward the students learning
English attitude.
The research design in this study is descriptive research with a qualitative
approach. The subjects of this research are an English teacher and students of the
Tenth grade of SMA Al-Islami Nurul Ma’ad. While the object of the research is
the teacher’s motivation strategies toward Tenth grade students in Learning
English attitude. The research instruments are observation, interview, and
documentation. The data analysis was inductive.
The result of the research shows that motivation of teacher had an
important role and must be owned by every teacher in teaching and learning
process in class, especially on changing the student’s attitude on learning English.
Teacher used ten strategies to motivate students in learning English, which
showing good behavior to students, giving pleasant and supportive classroom
environment, cohesive learner group with appropriate group norms, increasing the
learners’ expectancy of success, making the teaching materials relevant for the
students, making learning stimulating and enjoyable, presenting tasks in a
motivating way, increasing learners’ self-confidence, giving positive feedback,
and the last giving reward and grades in a motivating manner. English teacher
used a variety of teaching method that interesting, providing incentives or
reinforcement, such as gave positive feedback, addition values, reward, or by
personal approach and teacher always maintaining a good attitude. Motivation
strategies conducted by teachers also make the students active and enthusiasm to
learn English