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think or feel or do. In other words, human being can be said as a decision maker for themselves. In the classroom, when the learners can make their own decisions
or choices, the extrinsic motivation can wane because the learners know what to pursue and not to pursue. After that, the students will have their own motivation to
achieve their wishes and commands.
4. Sociocultural Approach
Based on Woolfolk 2009:192, a sociocultural approach is applied to the participation of the learners or the community of practicing. In this case, a person
participates in many activities in order to defend their identities. In the teaching- learning activities, the students can motivate themselve when the students
consider themselve as the members of the school. The students learn to be the better students by learning from the other members of the school, such as teachers
and students. From the explanation above, the sociocultural approach is defined as the intrinsic motivation in which people are the active participants in order to
defend their identities.
B. Theoretical Framework
Communicative Language Teaching as the approach of the language teaching underlying the English hour as the teaching strategy. As cited in Richards
and Rodgers 2001 that one of the purpose of Communicative Language Teaching is to help the English teachers in developing strategy of teaching
English skills. This research emphasizes on the speaking skill which belongs to the productive skill of English. The reason for conducting the English hour as the
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teaching strategy is based on the 2006 curriculum. The goals of the 2006 curriculum are the students are expected to be able to master and apply the
knowledge and skills of English in oral and written form at intermediate level. Therefore, the English teacher used this strategy to achieve that goal. The English
hour as the teaching strategy needs a procedure to make the activities in an order and group. The procedure can be made by the English teacher referring to the
book. The most important thing in making the procedure is the way of achieving the Communicative Language Teaching goal. As mentioned previously,
Communicative Language Teaching is based on the five principles: learners learn a language by using that language to communicate, the goal of the classroom
activities should be authentic and meaningful, fluency is an important aspect of communication, communication involves the combination of language skills,
learning is a process of creative construction and involves trial and error Richards Rodger, 2001: 172. The theory of Communicative Language Teaching needs
to discuss in this research because of the goal of the English hour teaching strategy. The English hour teaching strategy is expected to encourage or motivate
the students to be more confident to speak English. As stated previously that the English hour teaching strategy was created to
encourage or motivate the students to be more confident to speak English, the theory of motivation is used by the researcher to know some factors which
influence the students’ motivations. The factors which influence the students’
motivation is a part of the application of the English hour teaching strategy, such
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as how the teacher applied the English hour teaching strategy during the teaching- learning process.
The English hour is done in the teaching-learning process for one meeting hour every week. In this strategy, the students are asked to speak in order to
practice the students’ speaking skill in terms of communicating with their friends and the teacher. Furthermore, the language errors are tolerated. The language
errors are not considered as a false because of the goal of the English hour teaching strategy. The communicative goal has a purpose to improve the
students’ speaking skill. As explained by Hughes 2002, speaking is done in oral form,
context dependent, unplanned, dynamic, and temporary.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the writer discussed how the research was conducted, in terms of obtaining the data and analyzing the data gathered to answer the research
problems of this research. This chapter consists of six parts, namely research method, research setting, research participants, instruments and data gathering
technique, data analysis technique, and research procedure. The explanation of each part will be explained in the following part.
A. Research Method
The method used in this research was mixed method. Cited in Salehi and Golafshani 2010: 187, according to Hanson et al, Tashakkori Teddlie, mixed
method is a combination between qualitative and quantitative methodology. According to Creswell 2003: 140, mix method involves quantitative research
and qualititative reseaerch. Based on Sherman and Webb 1988: 7, qualitative is used to discovery a new understanding. According to Salehi and Golafshani
2010, qualitative method deals with a new understanding which is used by a researcher to describe social phenomenon p. 187. Quantitative method includes
numerical data Salehi Golafshani, 2010, p. 187. While qualitative method includes words as the data of the research.
