Demotivational Teaching Practices in EFL classroom: Perceptions of English among Indonesian Learners

Abstract: This study aims at identifying (1) the types of demotivating teaching practices in EFL classroom in Indonesia, and (2) the most frequently demotivating factors mentioned by the students. There were eighty four English learners as participants of this research. There were sixty-two students from senior secondary school and twenty two students from junior secondary school in 2015/2016 academic year. The instrument of this research is questionnaire of 24 5-point Likert type questions about demotivation which contains four factors. Those factors are the demotivating English teachers, demotivating material, demotivating classroom management, and demotivating method. This study reveals that all four factors and their items become demotivating teaching practices in the classroom setting, and the top ten items that would cause students demotivation were: (1) The teacher does not encourage students to participate in the classroom activity, (2) The teacher is miserly in scoring, (3) The teacher does not stimulate students to communicate in English, (4) The teacher is not friendly, (5) The number of students in the classroom is too large, (6) The teacher tends to teach, without considering students’ learning outcomes, (7) The teacher is unconscious and is not energetic, (8) Learning topic examples does not fit with students’ interest, (9) The 400 teacher cannot manage the class well, and (10) The teacher does not approach the students proportionally