Abstrak
This research was conducted based on the problems which were found by the researcher second grade students of PPMTI Koto Tuo Kumpulan. The students less confidence to participate and have a low motivation to learning English. The teacher had used reinforcement that included several types of reinforcement in English learning process. But, in the class some of the students still had problem when participate in the learning. The purpose of this research to identify the types of reinforcement that implemented by the teacher in English learning process and also to know the purposes of teachers’ reinforcement in helping the students in English learning process of PPMTI Koto Tuo Kumpulan . This research was descriptive qualitative research. The informant of this research were the teacher who taught in class VIII 1 and VIII 2 and some of the students from the Second Grades students in class VIII 1 and VIII 2 that were chosen by using snowball sampling. The data were conducted though observation and interview. The data were analyzed by using Flow Model Miles and Huberman in Sugiyono Based on the finding of the research, the researcher concluded that the teacher had implemented several types of reinforcement in English learning process at second grade students. The teacher had used positive reinforcement that consist into positive verbal and positive non verbal reinforcement, but the teacher mostly use the positive verbal reinforcement in English learning process. Although the researcheralso found that sometimes teacher also use the negative reinforcement that consist into negative verbal and negative non verbal reinforcement in some activities. Besides the researcher found the reinforcement that implemented by the teacher can help the students in English learning process.