This study investigates the influence of teachers' efforts in establishing
rapport on students' motivation within the English Study Program at IAIN Bone.
Establishing rapport between teachers and students is crucial in creating a positive
classroom environment that fosters effective learning. The research aims to
examine how specific teacher strategies—such as eye contact, gestures, facial
expressions, humor, monitoring, and personal interaction—affect students’
motivation to learn English. Employing a quantitative approach, data were collected
through questionnaires and classroom observations conducted over a two-month
period. The findings reveal a significant positive correlation between the teachers'
rapport-building efforts and students' motivation levels. The results imply that
proactive teacher behaviors in establishing rapport can substantially enhance
student motivation, thereby improving learning outcomes. This study provides
valuable insights for English teachers at IAIN Bone and offers practical suggestions
to foster better teacher-student relationships to support autonomous and motivated
language learning.
A. Conclusion
Based on the data analysis and discussion of the research, it can be
concluded as follows:
i. There is influence of building rapport toward the students’ motivation
in learning English to the students of English Study Program of IAIN
Bone. The data shows that most of the respondent answered yes in each
item. It means, they agree that their motivation improve when the
teachers build a good rapport with their students in learning English.
ii. Some teacher’s effort in building rapport are: (a) the teachers often
keep smiling while they are teaching in the classroom, (b) the teachers
listen attentively when their students talk (ask and answer), (c) the
teachers sometimes give present when the students have a correct
answer, (d) the teacher always monitoring when the students involve
the activity in the classroom, (e) the teachers sometimes provide
feedback, (f) the teachers sometimes make a joke while they are
teaching and (g) the teachers always vary their method of teaching
otherwise their students will not be bored.
B. Suggestion
The writer would like to put forward some suggestion as follows:
1. Most of the students are motivated in learning English when their
teachers develop their rapport, so the English teachers should pay
attention to these kinds of building rapport.
2. The English teachers should provide suitable method and vary their
method in teaching English to maintain their students’ motivation.
3. The English teachers need to discuss negative behavior in private to
change the students’ negative behavior and discuss the students’
difficulties in learning English.

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