Abstract
This study was conducted to find out the teacher’s teaching technique to motivate English
Department students be active in the classroom. In this qualitative study, one research question
was raised: “what kind of teacher teaching techniques are used by teaching students in the
classroom?” The participants of the study were ten teachers from ED (English Department)
participated in this study. The data for the study was collected from an unstructured interview
with the teachers. The analysis of the data showed that teachers should engage in motivating
their students to learn. Motivation refers to reasons that underline a constellation of closely
related technique, interests, and action. This paper argues for an approach about teachers’
teaching technique in motivating their students. From the research, it is found that most of
teacher gave reward in order to stimulate their student to learn. There were five ways that
teachers did to develop student’s ability in the classroom. They were presentation assignment,
personal approach for student’s psychologist, oral feedback and written feedback, personal
experiences to motivate the students, appraisal and reward to appreciate student’s participation.
