Relationship between motivation and teachers' teaching style among secondary school students' in Kulai

Abstract

Teaching and learning is not a new situation. In order to tackle students' motivation in learning, teachers' are required to add new approaches and teaching styles. Therefore, this research was conducted to determine the relationship between students' motivation and teachers' teaching style at secondary schools in Kulai. This research also aimed to investigate the significant differences of students' motivation and teachers' teaching style based on gender. The Cronbach's Alpha value is near with the value yielded in pilot study which is .800. The questionnaires were distributed to 160 students from two different schools.Findings showed that students were more favour with Personal Model style which obtained high score mean of 3.33 and score mean for students' motivation was 3.59 for intrinsic motivation. Female students seem to be more motivated to engage in learning because they can compete with peers. Result was revealed that there was a moderate relationship between students' motivation and teachers' teaching style. Few suggestionswere made such as widen the scope of sample size and number of schools involved in order to gain more significant and accurate result.