The study aims to identify teachers’ reinforcement in English Learning Process at Senior High
School 1 Padang. Teachers have to do several actions in the class such us encouragement,
reinforcement, reward, and punishment. It was focused on positive and negative reinforcement that
used in English Learning Process and any significant correlation of teacher’ reinforcement and
students’ achievement. A quantitative research was used where the data taken from questionnaire.
The data was analyzed by using Pearson correlation. The finding is that there is significance
correlation of teachers’ reinforcement and students’ achievement in English Learning Process. All of
the teachers are expected that using reinforcement in English Learning Process due to increased the
students’ achievement. It is concluded that positive reinforcement is mostly used by English teacher
at Senior High School 1 Padang.
Keywords: Teachers’ reinforcement, students’ achievement, learning process