Motivational Teaching Practice In Senior High School: An Observational Study
Abstract
The aim of the study is to investigate teacher motivational teaching practice
in EFL classes for Senior High School Level. The research is conducted by
using a qualitative method in a form of an observational study. There was one
English teacher of Senior High School in Yogyakarta who was involved as a
participant. She was chosen selected as a participant due to her had
experienced in teaching the English language for almost 18 years. So she has
a lot of experienced and she is able to give rich data about the motivational
strategies. The data were collected from the video recording as the main
source and an interview to support and clarify the main source. The results
show that the teacher used all aspects of motivational strategies in their
teaching language. The result showed the most frequently used is encouraging
positive retrospective self-evaluation with provided any feedback and reward
to achieve the learning goals and often used generating initial motivation,
maintaining and protecting motivation while learning to attain the learning
goals and the rarest teacher used is creating the basic motivational condition.