A Descriptive Analysis of The Roles of Teacher's Humor Toward Students' Motivation in Learning English

HIDAYANTI, ERLINA (2019) A Descriptive Analysis of The Roles of Teacher's Humor Toward Students' Motivation in Learning English. Other thesis, IAIN SALATIGA.

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Hidayanti, Erlina. 2019.“ A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE ROLES OF TEACHER’S HUMOR TOWARD STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH”. A Graduating Paper. English Education Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. State Institute for Islamic Studies of Salatiga (IAIN) salatiga. Counselor: Hanung Triyoko, S. S., M. Hum., M. Ed. This research focused on the teacher?s humor. This research aims to answer the following research questions: (1) What roles of teachers? humor towards students? motivation in English class? (2)What kind of humor used by teacher towards students? motivation in English class?. This research used qualitative methodology and adobted descriptive analysis. The subject of this research was the students in the eighth class of MTs. Mazro?atul Ulum Suwaduk Wedarijaksa Pati. The number of this class is 27 students, who consist of 13 male students and 14 female students. The data were collected from the questionnaires that distributed to students and interview. The result of the data analyzed show that the humors delivered by teacher interest students to pay attention, students show the enthusiasm in their focus.Humor also very important to attract students' attention, make students more discipline and prevent the students to be sleepy. Humors also refresh students? mind and make them more cheerful because of the fun circumstance, there is intimate relation between students and teacher, then in can improve students? motivation to learn English. The type of humor used by teacher in teaching and learning process is verbal humor. There are kinds of verbal humor used by teacher; jokes, riddle, satire, irony, and anecdote. Sometimes teacher?s humor is related with material, and sometimes it is a trigger students? focus. From the kinds of humor, the most frequent humor used by teacher is joke. The use of humor had to balance between ice breaking or refresher humor to attract students? attention and humor related with the material. Keywords: Humor, Teacher?s humor, Humor in the classroom, Students? motivation.

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