Importance Of Teacher Motivation

1.1 Background of the Study

Interaction between teacher and students are a part of learning language process. Teachers usually use the term ‘motivation’ when they describe successful and unsuccessful learners (Dörnyei, 2001). Teachers are seen as the role model who can motivate students. Therefore, teachers must be able to make students aware and enjoy while learning process in the classroom. In fact, motivation is not a simple process to do by the teacher (Dörnyei, 2001). Teacher should use a method that “when exercised, will make all students want to do their homework, come in for after-school help, and score well on their test and report cards (Dörnyei, 2001, p.13).

Motivation is the important thing to make students success in learning language because

This study is focused to find out each motivational component that is used by the teacher to maintain and protect students’ motivation. The writer will choose which of the components are used to motivate students through learning process.

1.4 Significance of the Study

This study is showed about the way of giving motivation by the teacher to students. As the record of classroom interaction, reader will know how to maintain and protect learners’ motivation. Therefore, by doing this study, hopefully, the teachers will know how to motivate their students in learning language. Also, students may be interested to learn foreign language especially English.

1.5 Scope and Limitation

The scope of this study is interaction between teacher and students which focused on motivational strategies. In this study, the writer only focuses on the teaching and learning process. The writer observes the class by recording the class meeting and sees the interaction between the teacher and students. The process of collecting the data will be done for two weeks.

1.6 Definition of the Key