MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING SKILL

Arofiatus Sa’Diyah

doi:10.30587/jetlal.v4i1.2384

Abstract

Motivation plays an important role in learning process, but it is generally known as the main problem in English as foreign language learning process. Most of the researches and studies pay high attention to this problem as it seems to be the trickiest challenges faced by teachers. Moreover in teaching speaking, the teacher should have high sensitivity to identify whether the students really have low motivation in oral production or it is caused by other factors, because low of motivation makes the students unable to achieve the goal of language learning. This paper discusses the motivational strategies in teaching speaking skill to the students who has low motivation also provide recommendation for English teacher to have successful implementation regarding to solve student’ low motivation in speaking skill.

Highlights

Of all thorough researches and studies concerning problems in teaching foreign language, many different problems were related to curriculum, learning process, facilities, classroom management, problem faced by the student itself such as: personality, anxiety, environment, and etc
Student’s low motivation is one of problems that undeniably stay unsolved from time to time
Motivation problem is always a tricky task for teacher to be addressed in foreign language learning process—in this case is English

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Introduction

Of all thorough researches and studies concerning problems in teaching foreign language, many different problems were related to curriculum, learning process, facilities, classroom management, problem faced by the student itself such as: personality, anxiety, environment, and etc. From all of those problems, one problem seems to be consistently exists as a challenge for teachers is student’s motivation. It is term to describe what energize a person to do the activity It is kind of internal drive which pushes someone to do things in order to achieve something. In this paper the writers implement motivational strategies to arouse students’ motivation, because those strategies have impact on students’ motivationin this case is English learning process especially in speaking skill

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