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.