The Implementation of Lecturer’s Motivational Teaching Strategies in Essay Writing Class: From Theory Into Practice

Abstract

Motivational teaching strategies play important role in students' learning process. The objectives of this study are to describe how the lecturer implemented and what motivational teaching strategies were dominant being implemented in Essay Writing class. The data were from the interview with Essay writing lecturer and video recording on his teaching within fourteen meetings or one semester. To analyze the data, the theory from Dörnyei were adopted with four main categories: creating basic motivational conditions, generating initial motivation, maintaining and protecting motivation, and encouraging positive selfevaluation with descriptive analysis as the method of analyzing data. The result revealed that from fourteen meeting with one hundred minutes each, not all motivational teaching strategies from four categories were implemented and the most dominant strategies was providing students with positive information feedback of writing tasks and assignments.