The aim of this research was to find what proper attitude and what
academic achievement of the students that could be rewarded and what types of
reward system that the teacher at Muhammadiyah Junior High School of
Purwokerto usually used. This research used survey research. The subjects of this
research were 4 teachers in Muhammadiyah Junior High School of Purwokerto.
There are 3 schools of Muhammadiyah Junior High School, each school has 2
English teachers but two of them never give reward when they teach their
students, so the writer only took 4 teachers as a subject research. The data was
collected used interview and observation. Interview was conducted before
observation and direct observation was conducted to gain depth information. After
collected the data, the data was analyzed and the stage of analyze the data was the
writer reduce the data then display it, and the last stage is draw conclusion. The
result shown that English teacher in Muhammadiyah Junior High Scholl gave
reward to the students when they could try to answer teacher’s questions whether
it is correct or incorrect and also when they got highest score in the class.
Meanwhile the types of reward that the teacher usually used during teaching and
learning process were verbal reward, tangible reward, token reward, and score
reward. The type was given according with the attitude or academic achievement
of the students. When the students answer the teacher’s question wrong the
teacher gave verbal reward for the students but when they answer it right the
teacher gave score or token reward. The teacher also gave tangible reward when
the students got highest score in the class. Reward can affect student’s motivation
in learning process but used wrong reward will make negative affect for the
students and also the students become distracted.