STUDENTS MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH SUBJECT AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Abstract
Abstrak Penelitian ini menganalisa motivasi mahasiswa semester satu Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Politik Universitas Tanjungpura dalam mempelajari bahasa inggris sebagai bahasa asing untuk tahun akademik 2011/ 2012. Motivasi pelajar sangatlah penting dalam proses belajar mengajar yang merupakan kunci dari kesuksesan. Motivasi pelajar dapat dipengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor seperti aktivitas belajar menagajar, tujuan pembelajaran, dan kurikulum. Hal tersebut dikategorikan sebagai motivasi eksternal. Motivasi eksternal ini kemudian mempengaruhi motivasi pribadi si pebelajar. Ini dinamakan motivasi internal. Oleh karena itu untuk menganalisa seberapa tinggi motivasi pelajar, penulis melakukan penelitian deskriptif. Dalam penelitian ini, penulis melakukan teknik observasi dan kuestioner. Kemudian, untuk mengelompokan tinggi rendahnya motivasi pelajar, peneliti menyusun kategori motivasi menjadi empat yakni sangat baik, baik, memuaskan, dan membutuhkan perbaikan. Pada akhirnya, penulis mengkategorikan motivasi pelajar dalam memuaskan karena masih banyak pelajar yang kurang motivasi belajar. Para pelajar ini tidak belajar aktif di kelas, mempunyai kesulitas dalam cara belajar mereka dan masih membutuhkan panduan dari dosen mereka.
Kata Kunci: motivasi, motivasi internal, motivasi eksternal, strategi pembelajaran yang memotivasi
Abstract This research aimed at analysing students motivation in learning English as a foreign language of the First Semester Students of Social and Political Science Faculty of Tanjungpura University in Academic Year of 2011/2012. Students motivation is important to teaching and learning process since that is the key to reach successful learning. Motivation of the students can be influenced by some factors such as teaching learning practice, goal of study and the curriculum. They are categorized as external motivation. This external motivation also influenced students self motivation or it was called as internal motivation. Therefore to analyse how high is external and internal students motivation is the writer did a descriptive study. In descriptive study, the writer did observation and questionnaire. Then, to categorize the level of internal and external motivation, the writer made a group of four of students motivation level; excelent, good, satifactory and need improvement. In the end, the writer found that the students categorized the partcipants into satisfactory because there are some students who still had lack of motivation. Those some students did not actively participated in the class, had difficulty in managing the learning style and needed more guidance from the lecturer.
Keyword: Motivation, internal motivation, external motivation, motivational teaching strategies
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