Mini Research

The Relation of Teachers’ Role in Creating Learning Environment and The Students’ Motivation in Learning

(A survey at 5^th  Semester Students of English Deparment of UIN Ar-Raniry)

A.    Background

In the relation to the learning spirit of students, enthusiasm in learning is important in the teaching learning process, because learning with the passion will encourage students to learn better than learning without passion. A proliferation of research from Eschenmann (1991) and other scholars suggests that if teachers take the time to build relationships they can motivate their students to learn. Further research (Whitaker, 2004) also suggests that teachers need to have a strong belief that building relationships are important to the motivation process.

This paper wants to answer the question “is the role of teacher influence  the students’ motivation”. This study aims to figure out whether the role of teacher in creating an atmosphere of learning process influence the students’ motivation or not.

B.     Literature Review

The students must have a good motivation when they learn something. When students are motivated they will set individual goals for themselves and modify their behavior in order to meet those goals. Teacher knowledge and efficacy of student motivation and achievement are crucial components to creating relationships that motivate (Nugent : 1999).  Classroom climate is important. If students experience the classroom as a caring, supportive place where there is a sense of belonging and everyone is valued and respected they will tend to appreciate more fully in the process of learning. As Hannula (2006) points out “To understand students’ behaviour we need to know their motives” (p. 165). Theorists believe that motivation has a determinative role in students’ success and failure in school (Cury, Elliot, Fonseca, & Moller, 2006; Pintrich, 2003).  Fredson also said that “by having a supportive relationship with teachers, students will be motivated, will feel protected and this sense of security and friendship will create an empathy which is important to get students interested and desirable to succeed” (2015 : p.6). Therefore, to motivate students, the teacher must be able to make the learning environment of students be fun.

C.    Research Methodology

Population and Sample

The researcher take the fifth semester students of English Department of UIN Ar-Raniry as a population which consist of 280 students. The sample is chosen by cluster random sampling. The sample for this study was 30 students (4 students per unit).

Data Collection Procedure

The data was collected by using online questionnaire. The sample of this study filled the questionnaire voluntary. There were six questions in the questionnaire, each question consist of 4 options : strongly agree, agree, neutral, and disagree.

Data Analysis

The instrument use in this study was questionnaire for the sample. The data gathered from the instrument have been analyzed by statistically. It were arranged together as a group by using simple percentage formula :

P = percentage of agreement

f = the number of frequency of the respondent answer

N = the number of respondent

D.    Result and Discussion

The following is the table analyzed from the questionnaire by using the simple percentage formula :

No.		Strongly Agree	Agree	Neutral	Disagree
1.	The students' motivation is very influenced by the role of lecturer in the classroom	54.8%	45.2%	0%	0%
2.	The condusive class situation can improve students' motivation in learning	32.3%	64.5%	3.2%	0%
3.	Students have difficulty to focus or understanding the material if the lecturer is very serious	19.4%	25.8%	41.9%	12.9%
4.	The lecturers' ability in teaching greatly affect the spirit of student in learning	51.6%	35.5%	12.9%	0%
5.	Students will be excited if the learning process in the classroom more actively	54.8%	38.7%	6.5%	0%
6.	I learn more with friends than learning in the classroom	19.4%	25.8%	54.8%	0 0%

From the table we can analyze that from the first question, 54.8% of the students of the fifth semester in English Department, strongly agree that the role of lecture in the classsroom is very influenced their motivation and none of them disagree about it. In the second question, we can see that 64.5% students agree if condusive class can improve their learning motivation and only 3.2 % students choose it neutral. It’s mean the condusive class is very influenced their motivation to learn in the classroom. The serious lecturer doesn’t make students difficult in learning the material (41.9%), but some of students don’t think so (question 3). 51.6% of students strongly agree if the lecturer’s skill in teaching is affected the student motivation in learning, and 54.8% of students will be spirit if an atmosphere in the classroom is active (questions 4&5). The lecturer must have pedagogical competence to make the students excited when the teaching lerning process.  The last question shows that the students learn with friend and leanr in the classroom is neutral (54.8%).

E.     Conclusion

The lecturers’s role is very influenced their students. When a lecturer teach a class, he/she have to be a good model to his/her students. It can cause the students motivation in learning, especially in the classroom. The result obtained from the study show us that the lecturers’ ability in teaching is also influenced the students’ motivation, if he/she good in teaching when learning process, of course the students will happy and enjoy the class. Most of the students agree if the role of the lecturer influenced their motivation. So, the lecturer have to motivate his/her student by giving a good learning environment.

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