Correlation of Lecturers’ personality and Students’ Motivation in Learning Reading Courses at English Language Universitas Negeri Padang

DOI

10.2991/icoelt-18.2019.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

students’ motivation, reading , lecturer personality

Abstract

This paper discusses the results of research on empirical descriptions related to three points in Reading courses at English Department Universitas Negeri Padang (UNP). The three points studied consist of (1) the personality of the lecturer in the learning process of Reading courses based on the student's perspective; (2) Students’ motivation to learn Reading, (3) the correlation between the personality of the lecturer and the students' ultimate motivation in the reading’s learning process. This research employed a descriptive method. The population of this research was all students who have studied four different courses in reading at the UNP Padang in English Language Department. The courses are Reading I, Reading II, Reading III, and Advanced Reading. This study used total sampling. There are three findings from this study. First, the personality of lecturers in teaching and learning Reading courses from the viewpoint of the students were in good category. Second, the students' most motivation in the learning process of Reading subjects is also included in the good category. Finally, this study shows that there is no strong correlation between the personality of the lecturer and students’ motivation in the learning process of Reading courses at English Language UNP Padang.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Leni Marlina
AU  - Delvi Wahyuni
AU  - Fitrawati Fitrawati
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Correlation of Lecturers’ personality and Students’ Motivation in Learning Reading Courses at English Language Universitas Negeri Padang
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth of International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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