A STUDY ON TEACHING STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION OF SDN MULYOAGUNG 03
IN LEARNING ENGLISH
THESIS
By: SUSIANIK
07360166
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
A STUDY ON TEACHING STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION OF SDN MULYOAGUNG 03
IN LEARNING ENGLISH
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
By: SUSIANIK
07360166
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG
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This thesis was defended in front of examiners of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education
on July 31st, 2012
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Unirversity of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Dr. M. Syaifudin, M.M
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the name of Allah SWT, the Almighty and the most merciful in this world. The writer has no better word than to say her highest and deepest and gratitude to Allah SWT for blessing and majesty so that the writer can complete and finish this thesis.
First of all, the writer would like to address her sincere gratitude to Riza Elfana, M.A as her first advisor, and Mas’udi, M.Ed, her second advisor for their patience and guidance during the entire process of consultation period. Their comment, criticism and advice become the most valuable thing in composing this thesis.
The writer extends her highest gratitude and appreciation Kuspriadi, S.Pd as head master, Alex as the English tutor of extracurricular of VIP, and all the English teachers of SDN Mulyoagung 03 Malang who given a lot help during conducting the observation it that school.
Finally, special thank belong to her beloved mom, husband, children and lovely family for uncountable, financial and moral support in her life until she can achieve sarjana degree. To all her friends (Ayu, Dessi Vilast, Eliza, Fhafa, Rani) for their wonderful friendship, pray, care, motivation and colorful life. Thanks a lot for everything.
May Allah the Almighty bless them all.
Malang, July, 2012,
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
EVERYTHING NEEDS STRUGGLE
AND EFFORT
DEDICATION:
I dedicate this thesis to: My Lovely Husband, My beloved Mom My beloved children, Ivan, Ivana and Naysa
TABLE OF CONTENTS
APPROVAL ... i
LEGALIZATION ... ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ... iii
MOTTO AND DEDICATION ... iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... v
ABSTRACT ... vii
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of Study ... 1
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Teaching English to Young Learners ... 8
2.2 The Characteristic of Young Learners ... 11
2.8 VIP English Course as Non-formal English Education
Institution ... 22
CHAPTER IV FINDING AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Finding ... 28
4.1.1 The Teaching Strategies used by the Tutor of VIP English Course in Giving Motivation to the students at SDN Mulyoagung 03 ... 28
4.1.2 The Implementation of Those Strategies in Classroom Activities ... 31
4.2 Discussion ... 34
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion ... 37
5.2 Suggestion ... 38
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1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter discusses background of the study, statement of the problems, purpose of the study, significance of the study, scope and limitation and definition of the key terms.
1.1Background of the study
Teaching English in early age is very important to develop the children’s language competence especially in learning foreign language. In Indonesia, English has been taught to the students in elementary school. Hopefully, the students will have a good ability in English. English subject is first introduced to the first until sixth grade students of the elementary school and they are commonly called as young learners.
Teaching English to elementary school students is absolutely different from teaching junior or senior high school. Teaching elementary school does not emphasize on teaching grammatical rules or determining the sentences pattern. It purposes to introduce them with the vocabulary, or teaching them how to spell and pronounce in the term of simple sentences. Teaching English to young learners is focusing on the shaping the children as the future users of English in the world which requires a high level of spoken and written communication (Smith in Sabillah 2004: 3).
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Therefore, it is very important to interact and adapt with their world and teaching them should be relevant with their way of thinking or their cognitive aspect. Active learning through interesting and meaningful games, puzzles, singing a song, coloring pictures will grow the children positive attitude toward English rather than teaching them about the grammar rules and make them more interested in learning process. It was supported by Phillips (in Sabillah, 2004:67) that teaching children to learn and develop becomes more important than simply teaching the language.
The formal education is badly needed to improve the teaching learning activities in achieving the objectives, of the National Education Program. It can be done in school and outside of school. The education in school called formal education that one continues formally from the kindergarten until a particular level. The education outside it is called non- formal education which is not continued like the formal one, such as English Course.
The English Courses Program grows fast in our country. They have their own strategy to find their members. Like what has been done by VIP English Course, one of the non-formal English education club in Malang, which focused in making the cooperation with some school in making an English Club for the students as the program of school extracurricular activity. VIP English Course has also own method in teaching learning activities. Especially for teaching of English for Young Learners (EYL) that has become popular in recent year.
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plan for someone else’s learning, which includes teacher’s explanation and information, student activities and task, teaching, and learning materials which will be used separated and measured.
In line with it, teaching strategy is needed to achieve the teaching language purposes and also to motivate the students to learn, because teaching will be successful if the teacher implements the appropriate strategy in the class. If the teacher wants to motivate the students to learn, they have to know first what the appropriate strategy to make the students interest to learning, because if the teacher employs appropriate strategies and make the material interesting for the students, those strategies can make the student motivate in learning English process. Meanwhile, Brophy (in Santrock, 2001:418) stated that strategies for improving the motivation of two main types of hard-to-reach and low achieving student are discouraged students who lack the confidence and motivation to learn, and interested or alienated students.
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Based on the statement above, we can conclude that those of strategies are good to be applied to deliver the material and made the classroom more fun and interesting, Akyuni used some strategies, such as arranged seating in U-shape, with the form circle, establish routines collecting homework, the teacher gave good performance in teaching by body language, facial expression and gestures to deliver material. Meanwhile Warnaningtyas used expository and immersion strategies because they were good to be applied and made classroom more fun and interesting. Different with the writer that interested in conducting a study on teaching strategies to improve students’ motivation of SDN Mulyoagung 3 in learning English. The writer chooses SDN Mulyoagung 3 Malang because the program or extracurricular activity had been done at the school in the afternoon after class was offer. Dian, one of parents of the students in the elementary school said that the activities had been done in the afternoon. Therefore, she worried that the students have low motivation in learning English because they feel tired, hungry, sleepy and uncomfortable. Based on the reasons, the writer is interested to conducted the research about a study on teaching strategies to improve students’ motivation in learning English. This research aims to give large contribution to make foreign language teaching interesting and communicative to young learners.
1.2Statement of the Problem
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1. What are teaching strategies used by the tutor of VIP English Course in giving motivation to the students of SDN Mulyoagung 3 in learning English?
2. How does English tutor of VIP English Course employ those strategies in classroom activities?
1.3Purpose of the Study
1. To know the teaching strategies used by the teacher or tutor of VIP in giving motivation to the students of SDN Mulyoagung 3 in learning English.
2. To find out the implementation of those strategies in classroom activities.
1.4Significance of the Study
The researcher expects that the result of this research will give some contribution especially for the English tutor of VIP by using some strategies in giving motivation to the students and the implementation of those strategies applied in English classroom.
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This study aimed to analyze the teaching strategies used by the English tutor of VIP in classroom activity of SDN Mulyoagung 3 Malang. It is limited to analyze on the fifth grade students of SDN Mulyoagung 3 Malang.
1.6Definition of Key Term
Teaching strategy : Specific method used by the teacher for approaching a problem or task, It was support by Tohey (in Peytcheva, 2000), teaching strategy are all of the activities and resources that the teachers plans in order to enable student to learn and would add “for the achievement of particular educational purpose”.
Motivation : The center of energy and effort to increase of students’ learning and behavior; it get students’ moving and keep them going. It was support by Maehr &Meyer, 1997,( in Parsons 2001: 472), motivation is something that energizes and directs a behavior toward a goal.
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Extrinsic motivation : Extrinsic motivation comes from outside such as tools and rewards. It was support by (Brown, 1994: 39), extrinsic motivation is motivation by which students’ behavior, on the other hand, are carried out in participant of a reward from outside and beyond itself.
Learning : Skill by study, experience or instruction. It was support by (Brown, 2000: 7), learning is acquiring or getting of knowledge of the subject or skill by study, experience or instruction.
