HOW DOES CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENTS MOTIVATES ME ? (A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCE OF PEKALONGAN UNIVERSITY)

Abstract

Pekalongan University has many classrooms with the good facilities that are aimed for teaching learning activities. Starting from the writer’s experiences when he was on the fifth semester, he faced many problems with classroom situation that demotivated him and the other students during learning process. This situation was compared with the current situation from the 2nd, 4th, and 6th semester of English Department academic year 2018/2019. It shows that they have the good enthutiasm in learning process so that is why the writer wants to investigate : (1) how the classroom environment influences the students’ motivation of English Department of Pekalongan University, (2) what the ideal classroom in learning process is of English Department of Pekalongan University. Descriptive qualitative and narrative inquiry are chosen as the research design. The population in this study is the English Department of Pekalongan University which consists of 3 grades of semester. By using non-probability and accidental sampling, 35 students are selected from all semester. The writer uses questionnaire to obtain the data and the data is processed by using narrative inquiry method.