The correlation between English teacher’s teaching style and students’ academic engagement at SMK Sepuluh Nopember Sidoarjo

One factor considered as a crucial element in teaching and learning process is teacher’s teaching style. Teaching style is the pattern of teachers’ teaching behaviour, such as the ways of presenting information, organizing discussion, lesson planning, and ways of facilitating learning activities. Teaching style is also need to be a crucial element in the lesson to engage the students in learning process, because engaging students in academic is important to enhance learning outcomes of all students. This research examines the correlation between English teacher’s teaching style and students’ academic engagement at SMK Sepuluh Nopember Sidoarjo and aims to find out type of English teacher’s teaching style that has strong correlation with students’ academic engagement. The subjects of this research were 172 students out of the total 460 students population. The sampling technique used in this research was probability sampling. The data were collected used questionnaire. Data analyses were gained by Pearson Product Moment correlation. There were two findings in this research. First, the data from Pearson Product Moment find that there is weak correlation between English teacher’s teaching style and students’ academic engagement with coefficient correlation 0,322. Second, the result shows that personal model style has strong correlation with students’ academic engagement. The Pearson Product Moment correlation of personal style shows that the coefficeint correlation was 0,311. This correlation result indicates that the more teacher adjust the teaching style in the classroom will the higher students’ academic engagement in the classroom. Hence, the teachers should provide a positive teaching and learning environment to engage the students in the classroom and also contribute to the better achievement.