Correlation between Attitude, Discipline, Motivation, and Learning Success

The second statement is “I have a big effort on achieving my academic goals”. The next point was about the students’ efforts on achieving the academic goals. The students agreed that they have a big effort on achieving the academic goal. If the learner is reluctant to learn or heshe does not have a big effort, heshe does not produce any result. The third statement is “The improvement of knowledge, skill, attitude, and responsibility can help me to have a better life quality in the future”. The students agree with the statement. It could be shown from the result of questionnaire. Every student came from the English language major thus certainly they have to improve English language in all skills. Those factors influenced the students’ way of thinking of the English learning. The fourth statement is “The improvement of knowledge, ski ll, attitude and responsibility help to get a better job”. The students agreed with the statement. Since “improving skills” is considered as such an important avenue to achieving goals, the next set of questions became even more relevant. The next statement is “Making mistakes when learning foreign language is a common thing”. The students agreed that making mistakes when learning foreign language was a common thing, especially for beginners. That statement was supported by the result of the questionnaire. The average score indicated that the students had positive response towards the statement because making mistakes when learning foreign language was a common thing, moreover students could learn from their mistakes and making mistakes also could not decre ase the students’ self -confidence . Besides, people PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI knew that self- confidence is very important for humans’ life if they want to be more successful and have a better life quality. The next statement is “I have strong beliefs toward my goals that I can achie ve my academic goals”. The students agreed with the statement. When we have a strong belief, then we will start taking action for achieving the goals. By taking actions, we will begin taking the result. The next statement is “I avoid getting punishment”. The students agreed with the statement. Be willing to work on a solution together. This will show we are taking action to prevent the problem, and the parents may feel punishment is unnecessary. The role of L2 learning motivation has been intensively studied by social psychologists in Canada, where French and English are the two official languages. Gardner 1985 hypothesized that L2 learners with positive attitudes toward the target culture and people will learn the target language more effectively than those who do not have such positive attitudes. In their earlier studies, Gardner and Lambert 1959 found that attitude and motivation were the two factors most strongly associated with learners L2 achievement. Ushida, E. 2007 stated that students who have good attitude study regularly and productively in order to take every opportunity to perfect their language skills. That is, the students who have positive motivation and attitudes toward the study are able to control their learning even though they have to study mostly on their own. Ahmed 2015 points out that “learners’ attitude play a significant role in maximizing learning and teaching output. Learners’ attitude can be defined as a collection of feelings regarding language use and its status in the society. The feelings are good, bad and neutral. They can nurture or hinder the learning process effectively” p.1. Considering this fact, the teachers should always pay a big attention to every child. Their attitude plays a big part in everyday lives and can affect how life may turn out in the future. If the children have a good attitude, they will be the kind of people who works hard. 2 Students’ Motivation The second theme in the questionnaire was about students’ motivation on learning English language. The first statement in the questionnaire is “In general, I found my course is very interesting”. The students agreed with the statement. The students found the course very interesting. They have several different ways of trying to overcome the problems on learning. They really enjoy to study topics at all the courses. The next statement is “In general, the lecturers stimulated my interest in my subject”. When analyzing the data, it can be seen that most students are not very keen on classeslectures, which are in English. The reason why the students do not consider the classeslectures in English more interesting can be connected with the fact that the methods of teaching content subjects in English is not interesting for them. However, they build their own m otivation. They don’t find it difficult to get motivated to work on the course. Though they often find the course boring but they will stick with it. The next statement is “Overall, I have really enjoyed my studies so far at university level”. The students consider that their studies at university is a fun. The university is an inclusive place to study. They love their time there. In general, the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI