Exploring the Motivation of English Language Learning Students in Indonesia

摘要

Motivation is an essential part of the learning process especially learning a language to achieve the desired goals. This study aims to examine the English major first-year students' motivation for learning English. The method employed in this study is a case study method. The participants were 50 students from the English Department at Indonesia University of Education. The questionnaire was used as the instrument to collect the data. The findings revealed that including having significant differences between integrative and instrumental motivation, students' motivation in learning English is high. Besides, students are more instrumentally motivated than integrative motivation. Hence, teachers should increase the students' integrative motivation through raising their interests in the culture of the target language, such as giving information about people and lifestyle, geography, literature of the English countries through visual and even organizing group sharing for learners who have been to English speaking countries.