Guiding Students Lecturers’ Role in Implementing Positive Self-fulfilling Prophecy
51 choose the successful way or the failure way? If we say that I will
succeed from the beginning, our mind will try to find a way to succeed”. – Ms. Martha, 25032015, my translation
Students need someone to show them that they have potential to reach their dreams. Ms. Martha believed that every student has their own dreams to be
reached. As stated before, one of lecturers’ roles in education is motivating
students. Therefore, self-fulfilling prophecy might be implemented well in the teaching-learning process for both lecturers and students.
Mr. Daniel had different style in motivating his students. He shared that he always played music or gave some jokes in order to make students relaxed. He
thought that when students feel relaxed, it would be easier for him in delivering the material. Ms. Martha and Mr. Jono had the similar ways in motivating
students. Both of them stated that they always try to know their students in person. Listening to students’ story or problem is also the way for lecturers to engage with
students. In addition, the meaning of increasing
students’ motivation for Mr. Jono was setting the high standard from the beginning of the class. He believed that
every student has the same opportunity to reach their dreams. However, those opportunities must be based on the attitude and character that students implied.
“High expectation is a standard. I believe people have the same capacity to grow and develop and work more if everyone has a focus for
sustainably having discipline together. Mr. Jono, 23032015, my translation
What Mr. Jono shared is related to Wallace 1998, p. 18 as cited in Dornyei 2001, p.184 that in developing professionally as a language teacher on
continuous basis, they have access to a wide variety of methods. One of the
52 methods is by reflecting on interesting andor problematic areas in more structured
way. Mr. Jono added, he always asked their students to reflect what they have done in class. He always used written reflection to know the
students’ commitment to learn. Then, he gave feedback to his students
’ handwritten by telling them that he really proud to have students like them.
Giving feedback such as praise to students can be one of the best ways to make students motivated. In giving feedback to his students, Mr. Jono always
tried to use words which were motivating and encouraging. There are various types of teacher feedback and one of the common used by the participants is
motivational feedback which can be seen on table 2.1. Those types of feedback are performance, motivational, attributional, and strategy. Based on the findings,
most of the participants gave those types of feedback to their students to make the students feel appreciated and motivated to follow the teaching-learning process.
The table of the feedback can be seen as follows.
Table 4.1 Lecturers’ Feedback based on Interview
Type Example
Performance
I will still appreciate them, if the answer is correct I
will usually say “Good job” or “Excellent” something that will make them happy and motivated
and feel appreciated. Ms. Richa, 11032015
Motivational
They need someone who always say “Hey guys you can do it
”. That’s my keyword. Ms. Martha, 25032015, my translation
Attributional
By appreciating them, by saying thank you, or giving them appraisal, so that they feel that they are
appreciated and motivated, to make sure that they, they are still there, I mean they keep doing their
best, I will just thank you will be the most common
word that I use in every class, “thank you”, “ you’re
really good at this
” and so on. Ms. Richa, 11032015