THE LECTURERS’ STRATEGIES IN CREATING A HEALTHY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS

Abstrak

The researcher was aimed at investigating the lecturers’ strategies that used in creating a

healthy learning environment to students in the classroom at 2nd semester of English study program

in UMB. Methodology of the research was descriptive method. Subject of this research was all of

English lecturers who teach at the 4

th semester in English study program academic year 2021. The

total of the lecturersare six English lecturers. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation

checklist and video recording. In analyzing the data, the researcher found out the frequency of the

lecturers strategies in creating a healthy learning environment by using formula, and then take the

conclusion. After doing this research, researcher found that the lecturers used five strategies in

creating a healthy learning environment in learning English they were providing positive feedback

(17.7%), treating the participants as individuals (24.4%), maintaining the self-esteem of learners

(25.6%), creating a positive physical and emotional atmosphere (18.9%), and creating a positive

classroom discipline system (13.4%). Based on the research result, there are some suggestions for

English lecturers. Researcher suggest that English lecturers would be better to used the varied

strategies in creating a healthy learning environment, in order to create the condition of classroom

more actively and comfortably, so the students will be more interesting in studying in classroom.

Key words: lecturer strategies, healthy learning environment