1.6 Benefits of the Study
Regarding the danger of the use of extrinsic reward to the students intrinsic motivation, it is important for the teacher to control the use of it in class.
This research, first, serves as a reflection toward her teaching method and strategy and as a note to develop the English class in her elementary school. It is important
to enhance the students’ motivation in learning English in the higher level. For the educational institution, this research also plays a role as the media
in monitoring the use of extrinsic reward by English teacher in elementary school. The result of the study could be used as consideration to develop the ability of an
English teacher to maintain the use of extrinsic reward in class. Not only the teacher or the educational institution which could get the
benefit of this study, further researcher could also take benefit of this study. This research could be used as additional literature for further researcher who is also
interested in the topic.
1.7 Definition of Terms
1. Extrinsic reward Extrinsic reward has two kinds of definition; unexpected and expected
Ryan; Mims; Koestner: 2000. Unexpected means extrinsic reward which is given after the task completion without having been mentioned before, while
expected means extrinsic reward that are offered to subjects before they began working on the activity. Each of extrinsic reward has its own management and
effect toward the students’ intrinsic motivation.
This study tends to use the second definition of extrinsic reward; expected reward. This definition is used based on the consideration that the teacher
commonly uses this kind of reward. Finally, extrinsic reward in this study is an expected reward which is given by the teacher to the students in the classroom
activity based on some criteria. 2. English teacher
Teachers are people who possess specialized knowledge and skills in education McNergney and Herbert, 1995: 25. They have also fulfilled
requirements for certification or recognition by the state that they have met minimum standards for competence practice McNergney and Herbert, 1995: 25.
Based on the definition before, English teacher is a teacher who has specialized knowledge and skills in teaching English and has certification in that
scope of knowledge. 3. Elementary school
Elementary school is school for 5 12 yearoldstudents during 6 years educational program
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter contains theories that support the study. The supporting theories are under two sub topics in this chapter. The sub topics are the theoretical
description and theoretical framework. The theories and concepts about motivation, extrinsic reward, and elementary school are discussed in the
theoretical description. The implementation of the theories in this study will be
discussed in theoretical framework.
2.1 Theoretical description
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