Emotional Behaviour Classroom Behaviours

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B. Theoretical Framework

There are obviously many factors that could influence learner’s individual performance. In this research, the researcher intends to seek the impact of the two referred to variables by monitoring individual’s observable classroom behaviours and performance. Thereby, this research focuses its investigation on the factors within the readers, which are intrinsic motivation and learning styles, and their effects on individual’s performance. At this point, it is clear that this research involves intrinsic motivation and learning styles as its primary discussion. The researcher is aware that both intrinsic motivation and learning styles are abstract domains; they are not subject to direct observation but they can be inferred and indicated from several sources namely continuous observations, inquiry, and clarification through interview. It is also clear enough that both factors intensely affect individual’s classroom performance. The researcher attempts to seek the influence of intrinsic motivation and learning styles on each learner’s performance through particular criteria. In order to assess the learner’s classroom performance, the researcher observes the research participants’ classroom behaviours. The intended classroom behaviours covers emotional behaviour, conduct behaviour, and learning behaviour. Each research participant is observed during the course. Their observed classroom behaviours such as being confident or nervous while delivering their personal opinions, being physically and verbally disruptive to other pupils, being interested in and engaged in tasks effectively, and so forth are recorded and classified on the observation sheets. 19 Afterwards, the inquiry results from both questionnaire and interview as well as these recorded and classified classroom behaviours are used to assess each research participant’s intrinsic motivation and learning styles. As what is stated in previous paragraphs, this course requires the learners not only to comprehend new knowledge, to apply the knowledge meaningfully, and to analyse the information into its smaller parts but also to synthesize the information to generate a general conclusion that can be inferred from each learner’s personal viewpoint. The researcher tries not only to discover how intrinsic motivation and learning styles sustain each research participant’s classroom performance but also tries to find out how each learner deals with the emerging difficulties due to the existing individual characteristics. As a result, the research investigates the research participants’ individual characteristics namely intrinsic motivation and learning styles as well as the way how each learner overcomes the encountered difficulties during performing the assigned classroom tasks.