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questionnaire
.
For the sake of confidentiality, the researcher named those 10 students by “student 1-10” instead of mention them with their real name
.
The students were asked questions related to their motivation towards learning
English
.
The questions are: 1 their reasons for learning English and 2 their interest to attend English courses
.
a. Instrumental reasons
Consistent with the questionnaire results, the majority of the interviewees agreed that their motivation arises from “more functional or external needs, such
as the need to pass examinations, or posibly, career opportunities” Skehan, 1989, p
.
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.
In other words, instrumental motivation is considered as the primary source of
SMK N 1 Depok Students’ motivation towards learning English
.
Here are
some direct quotes from the interviewees that illustrate those reasons:
Student 8: “because I want to pass the final examination, we all know that
English will be one of the main subject in the final examination” Student 4:
“because I want to pass the national examination and I want to go to college I dream about”
Both student 8 and student 4 mentioned about passing the final examination
.
Moreover, student 4 also mentioned about her willingness to enter the university that she wants
.
From the two statements above, the instrumental motivation arises from academic reason; the need to pass the examination and to
pass the college entrance examination
.
The educational system requirement
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academic reason
.
Student 3: “because it will be a consideration when I apply a job later”
Student 10: “because when I apply a job later, the possibility to get the job
will be higher if I master the English language”
Those statements above clearly show us that these students’ motivation arises from the utilitarian need, which is to get job easily
.
Indeed, mastering English measured by TOEFL will be one of the requirements to apply a job
.
Student 9: “because my mother run an accessories store at Kaliurang a
tourism resort and there are many foreigner tourists visit my mother’s
store, if I can speak English, I can help my mother to run the store”
The statement from student 9 said that she wanted to help her mother to run the store because her
mother’s store customers are foreign tourists
.
Although the application of her need is to be able to communicate with the foreigners, the researcher categorizes her statement into instrumental reason
because her need is to help her mom to run the store
.
Student 7: “because English is an international language, and now we’re in
a globalization era, mastering English is a must”
The statement from student 7 above show us that her instrumental motivation arises from her need to meet the requirement of globalization era and
the fact that English has become an international language
.
The researcher categorizes student 9 and student 7 statements above into instrumental reason
because the researcher analyzes it from the need to learn the target language
.
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b. Integrative reasons
