Reward or Punishment: Its Influence to Enhance Students' Self Efficacy in English Learning Process

Abstract

Reward and punishment are the two terms which are so familiar for all education stakeholders, although each has different meaning, but both terms are claimed to give effects to the students. By giving reward and punishment, teachers think that it can give positive influence for their students' life skills. Kohn (1999) stated that reward and punishment are two sides of the same coin. Those two things can not guarantee that the students will earn positive influences especially to their self-efficacy in their English learning process. Self efficacy is students' belief about their success;it means they are confident with their ability to get successin learning English or to master English well. The teacher should be careful in choosing the effective reward or punishment for their students. Hopefully, it will give the students positive influences to their self efficacy. It is recommended to have another way as an alternative to enhance the students' self building especially their self efficacy. Keywords:reward, punishment, self efficacy, English learning