STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION AND THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PERSONALITY

Abstract

This research aimed at finding out the types of English teacher
personality based on students’ perception and how is their attitude
toward their English teacher personality. This research used descriptive
qualitative method. The subject of the research were students of second
grades at SMKN 1 Palopo and there were 4 teachers of English at
SMKN 1 as focus of this research. The researcher used snowball
sampling technique in taking 12 students as the respondents of this
research. The instrument of this research was interview. The result of
this research shows that (a) in the eyes of the students, there were 3 English teachers who have good personality, they were warm, caring to students, sociable, knowledgeable, creative, cheerful, close to students, and explicit. Then, 1 teacher has bad personality, such as low motivation, boring, lazy and apathetic. (b) the students’ attitude toward their English teacher is determined by teacher personality. If the teacher has good personality, students’ attitude is positive. On the contrary, if the teacher has bad personality, students’ attitude is negative. In the view of students, a good teacher should be kind, humorist, good motivator, knowledgeable, creative, explicit, close to students and sociable. Then, most of the students perceive that the teacher personality influence their mood in learning English.

Keywords: perception, attitude, teacher personality