The Influence of Social-Emotional Approach to Students’ Motivation in Learning English

Abstract

The purpose of social-emotional approach in class is to enable teacher to create situation in which students can experience change in the learning process. If the approach is successful, the teacher will be easy to give motivation to the student so that it can influence students’ behavior and learning spirit. The purpose of the research was to find out whether or not there is influence of social-emotional approach in the motivation of students in learning English when it is applied by the teachers. The object of the research was 42 students of TAB X class at SMK PGRI 2 Ponorogo. The techniques of collecting data were questionnaires and documentation. The analysis technique used was correlation coefficient contingency and product moment. The result of the reserach implied that there was very strong correlation between social-emotional teachers approach to the students’ motivation of TAB X Class at SMK PGRI 2 Ponorogo.