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motivation is very necessary, because one does not have the motivation to learn, not be possible learning activities.
From the opinion of experts, we can conclude that the motivation is encouragement from both inside and outside the
individual who has the power to stimulate and direct a person to act or work. Motivation can also be defined as the driving force that
causes an attempt to do something. Students will succeed in learning when they raise the
motivation to learn by themselves, because without knowing what will be learned and do not understand why it has to be learned, then
the learning activities will be difficult to achieve success. Students’ motivation is very important because it can move towards a
positive student behavior so that they can face any charges, and bear the risk of difficulties in learning. If there is no motivation in
students, it will cause a feeling lazy to learn well in following the lessons and tasks assigned by the teacher. Students who have a
high learning motivation will arise a great interest in the following study.
Sardiman A.M 2007:75 argues that the motivation to learn is a psychological factor that is non-intellectual. His role in
the growth of passion typical, happy and eager to learn. According Winkel Fajar Kurniawan Saputro, 2006: 17 motivation to learn is
the overall driving force in self-esteem that lead to learning
activities, which ensures continuity of learning activities, so that the desired goal, namely student achievement of optimal learning
can be achieved. It can be concluded that the overall learning motivation is
the driving force or a strong impetus from within the individual that causes learning activities for students so that the desired goals
can be achieved. Maslow Sardiman A.M, 2007:80 argues that the hierarchy of human needs to learn is as follows 1 physiological
needs, such as hunger, thirst, the need for a break, and so on, 2 the need for security, the sense of freedom from fear and anxiety,
3 the need for love, to feel accepted in a society or a group family, school, group, and 4 the need to realize oneself, ie to
develop talent with business to achieve results in the field of knowledge, social, and personal formation.
b. Various Motivation Various learning motivation by Sardiman A.M 2007:89-91
is divided into two types, namely: 1 intrinsic motivation, the motives that become active or functioning of not need to be
stimulated from the outside, because the individuals have nothing to do with the urge to do something, 2 extrinsic motivation, the
motives are active and functioning of as stimulus from the outside. Syaiful Bahri Djamarah 2002:115 mentions that pertained
form of intrinsic motivation is a form of motivation in learning
activities initiated and passed by an absolute encouragement related to the learning activities. Belonging to the intrinsic motivation,
namely: 1 learning because they want to know the ins and outs of the problem as complete, 2 learning because they want to be
educated or to be an expert in the field of study and students appreciation of the need to make an effort through learning
activities to meet these needs can only be met by studying diligently. Extrinsic motivation is motivation that comes from
outside the individual self. extrinsic motivation were classified into: 1 learning to meet the obligation, 2 learn to avoid the threatened
punishment, 3 study in order to obtain the promised prize material, 4 learning in order to enhance the social prestige, 5 study for the
demands who wish to hold office or to meet the requirements of the increase in levels, 6 learn to gain praise from the people who
matter. c. Principles of Learning Motivation
Syaiful Bahri Djamarah 2008: 152 divides the six principles of motivation to learn, namely:
1 motivation as the basic driving force that encourages learning activity, the motivation,
the individual will perform learning activities within a certain time frame, 2 primary motivation is more intrinsic than extrinsic
motivation in learning, this is because of the self-motivation arises from consciousness itself so much stronger for learning activities
compared with extrinsic motivation, 3 motivation in the form of praise is better than punishment, motivation in the form of praise
will increase achievement in learning while punishment only cause negative behavior, 4 motivation closely related to the learning
needs of the desire to dominate of science appropriate with the times, 5 motivation can cultivate optimism in the study,
individuals who are motivated to learn always confident to complete each task and get useful results, 6 motivation bore achievement in
learning, high motivation will always push to make it to that expected to be realized.
Learning principles is an important part that must be known to the teachers so that they can understand the deeper principles and
a teacher can make appropriate references in learning. By doing so, the lesson will be much more effective and can reach the target
goal. d. Role of Learning Motivation
Hamzah B. Uno 2011: 27 argues that there are three roles of motivation in teaching, namely:
1 The role of motivation in determining reinforcement learning Motivation can play a role in reinforcement learning if a child
who learns faced with a problem that needs solving, and can only be solved with the help of the things that have ever gone
through.