THE AUTHORITATIVE STYLE AS ART OF TEACHING TO INCREASE EFL STUDENT’S INTEREST

Abstract

Teachers or prospective teachers in the covid-19 outbreak today must be able to face all the changes that occur in the world of education. The changes, of course, have impacts on students' learning process, especially their interests. Furthermore, the weak interest in learning can also create bad characters in their learning activities. They often ignore the teacher in the classroom, do not do assignments, and make mischief during the learning process. 

Seeing the condition this study was proposed to determine the effect of using an authoritative style of teaching in the classroom to increase the students' interest in learning English at a vocational high school in Jakarta. The method used in this study is the pre-experimental design with a total sample is 27 students. The instruments used in this research are pre-test and post-test by following the test requirement analyses of the Chi-Square normality test and homogeneity test. Then it was supported by the questionnaire given to the experimental class