Design of the Research
Since this study concerns on the students’ learning motivation and learning strategies, Learning Motivation questionnaire and Language Learning Strategies Questionnaire
LLSQ were used and proposed by Setiyadi 2006 because the materials both of them are suitable and relevant for this research. In addition, the questionnaire of
motivation consists of 20 multiple choices items with 3 choices in every item. At the end of this questionnaire, there is the last item no.21 which is used to measure type
of learning motivations. Another questionnaire is LLSQ of reading which consists of 20 items. In LLSQ, items are divided into meta-cognitive strategies, cognitive
strategies, and social strategies. Furthermore, Likert Scale is used to make the students easier to answer the questionnaire. In this research, each item has five
alternative answers i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Below is the list of statements dealing with the alternative options:
1. Never or almost never true of me; 2. Usually not true of me;
3. Somewhat true of me; 4. Usually true of me;
5. Always or almost true of me.
Meanwhile, the use of reading test was based on students’ handbook of curriculum based on KTSP. The reading test was given to the students when the questionnaire
test had been administered. The time allocation was 90 minutes. There are 50 items in form of a suitable answer based on the text for any or some questions in reading test.
The questions were tried out in other class outside the sample to get validity and
reliability of the test. The kind of reading test used was objective test. There were lists of questions with four possible answers a, b, c, d that had to be answered by the
students in the test to measure the students’ reading comprehension.