Teacher’s Effort in Building Students’ Motivation In Learning English

This thesis is entitled “Teacher’s Effort In Building Students’ Motivation In Learning English”. The purpose of this study was to know the teacher’s efforts in encouraging students to be motivated in learning English at SMA Teuku Nyak Arif Fatih Bilingual School. The objective of this research are (1) to find out teacher’s effort in building students’ motivation in learning English and (2) to find out the students’s view of their teacher’s effort in building their motivation in learning English. This study uses qualitative analysis approach. The sample of this research was 10 outstanding student of Grade 2 and an English teacher of Fatih Bilingual School. To obtain the data, the researcher applied a questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire was aimed at finding out the students ‘view of their teacher’s effort in building their motivation in learning English. Based on the data analyses, There are some conclusions that can be drawn. First, The finding of analysis have identified some efforts that was made by teacher in building the students’ motivation. Those effort are categorized into 4 parts including creating the basic motivational conditions, generating initial motivation, maintaining and protecting motivation and encouraging positive retrospective self-evaluation. The teacher’s clarification on what they have done to build her students’ motivation has also been confirmed by the students’ responses in the questioner. The result of the interview and questionnaire revealed that the teacher become the important factor in building students’ motivation in SMA Teuku Nyak Arif Fatih Bilingual School Banda Aceh.