“Yes, attitude,
discipline, and motivation will affect to the achievement of the learning success. Success in learning is important because if we are
successful in learning means we already master the material.” AA
According to the students’ responses above, it could be concluded that all of them agree that there was relation between attitude, discipline, motivation and learning
success. The results were supported by their statements about the contribution of attitude, discipline, and motivation on achieving learning success. Since attitude,
discipline, and motivation provided positive contribution on the learning success, they got some useful input for their learning success.
Their responses above show that attitude, discipline, and motivation aspect are contributive not only for the process of achieving learning success. The predictor
variables support each other. It can be stated that they are positively correlated. According to the analysis of the interview answers, it is found that there is a
positive and significant relation between attitude, discipline, motivation, and learning success. The findings of this interview can therefore provide a substantial contribution
to the teaching. Knowing the students’ attitude, discipline and motivation means that teachers and institutions can act to stimulate the students throughout several ways. That
is, there is a persistent and consistent attempt to make the students be better for helping them be successful.
By doing so, the students can be motivated to achieve the academic goals. Such an individual will express the desire to succeed, and will strive to achieve success. The
motivated individual will enjoy the task of learning the language. Such an individual PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
will say that it is fun, a challenge, and enjoyable, even though at times enthusiasm may be less than at other times Gardner, 2002.
2. The Result of the Questionnaires for Foreign Language Academy Students
The questionn aire to obtain the data of students’ attitude, discipline and
motivation was conducted for the third grade of Foreign Language Academy of St. Pignatelli students. The questionnaires were distributed on 1
st
December 2016 and 2
nd
December 2016. The number of the participants who were chosen to fill in the questionnaire was 30 students from third grade semester. Besides, this research had
several primary aims. The first was to obtain the information about students’ attitude on English learning activities. The
second was to obtain the information about students’ discipline on English learning activities. The third was to obtain the information about
students’ motivation on English learning activities. All questionnaires were on closed questions in which the students were to choose the appropriate statement which
correspond most closely to the desired students. All questionnaires were completed and therefore applied. The complete result of the questionnaire could be seen in the
appendix. Based on the obtained dat a, the researcher could generate students’ attitude,
students’ discipline and students’ motivation.
This section describes the result of the questionnaire, including the inferential statistic calculation and descriptive statistic calculation. A descriptive analysis was
made to describe the components of students’ attitudes, discipline, and motivation including students’ perceptions on those relation toward learning success.
The data from the questionnaire helps the researcher to describe the students’ att
itude, discipline, and motivation aspect. Students’ attitude, discipline, and motivation aspect could be identified in the questionnaire section using Likert scale score. This
close-ended questionnaire has 5-points Likert scale that reveals the data in the forms of interval data which are then converted into nominal categorical data. The data are
converted to make them able to be operated by using statistical analysis of Multiple Regression.
The questionnaire items were divided into three parts; they were attitude part, discipline part, and motivation part. Therefore, when the students were asked to respond
on some questionnaire items about their attitude, discipline, and motivation, all the students gave their own evaluation. More than half of the students gave the positive
evaluation. The explanation of the themes would be presented below.
1 Students’ Attitude
The first theme in the questionnaire was about students’ attitude on learning English language. The first statement in the questionnaire was
“I am
quite confident
with my English skill”. It was to know the students’ confidence in using English language. The result of the questionnaire showed that
mostly the students were doubt and not confident with their English skill
. It may because by the students ’ frequency and
opportunity to communicate in English. The students had limited time and opportunity to communicate in English and even they had no chance to communicate in English
outside the classrooms. Besides, the students’ environment does not support the students to communicate in English.
