Teacher’s Strategies to Sustain Students’ Motivation in Online Learning English

Abstract

Learning in 21^st century nowadays is more flexible than learning in the past. It can be done in offline and online learning. Apart from the weakness, online learning has advantages such as learning can be done remotely. However, some lectures have challenges to motivate students in online learning. The study will describe teachers’ strategies to sustain students’ motivation in learning English and students’ preference towards the teaching strategies. A case study with qualitative approach is implemented in the study. Involving D2 students and an English teacher in one of the community colleges in Gresik, the data will be collected in the form of questionnaire using close-ended questions and analysed by the procedure: (1) collecting the data, (2) reducing the data, (3) displaying the data, and (4) drawing conclusion and interpretation. There are some results of this study. First, the teachers applied learning strategies to sustain students’ motivation in the beginning activity: listing the attendance of students, knowing the name of students, and asking the problem of students in learning English; whilst activity: the teacher applied various method and instructional media in teaching English; and closing activity: the teacher gave feedback to students after the learning activity. Second, students have positive responds towards the teacher’s strategies. The strategies implemented by the teacher could motivate them in learning English.