THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHER’S REWARD TO STUDENTS’MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to know how does the influence of rewards given by teachers to
students’ motivation in learning English. Participants of the research are students in Upper Intermediate
Structure Class in STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat. This research is a descriptive research with quantitative
approach. Instruments of the research are questionnaire and interview. Questionnaire that used by
researcher are types of reward that used by teachers can make motivate students in learning English and
interview is used for helping the researcher to find some the data along research process. In this research
interview has function for making information from questionnaire more strength. Based on the result of
data are gotten from questionnaire and interview show that teacher’s reward had influenced to students
‘motivation. Indicator types of teacher’s reward to students’ motivation. It consists of social reward,
activity reward, token reward and material reward. The percentages of social reward is 18 students
(75,00%) in influenced categorized, activity reward is 17 students (71,00%) in influenced categorized,
material reward is 17 students (71,00%) in influenced categorized and material reward is 13 students
(54,00%). The result of recapitulation of all indicator type of reward used by the lecturer is 83 % in
influenced categorized. It means that teacher’s reward had influenced to students’ motivation in learning
English.