Meanwhile, Jeremy Harmer says “motivation is some kind of internal drive that encourages some body to pursue a course of action.
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Internal drive means a tendency within an organism toward a goal is based on the changes in
the organism process.
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In addition, Brown defines motivation as inner drive, impulse, emotion or desire that moves one to a particular action.
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An inner drive is a force within the organism and pushes them to do certain actions toward the goal.
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Based on those definitions above the writer concluded that motivation is an internal and external drive, which pushes a person to do something
toward a certain goal.
2. Source of Motivation
The source of motivation can be divided into the internal drive that can be obtained from the society, the significant others, the teacher, and the
method.
1. Society The society is called as the source of internal drive because people
live in environment, and their attitudes from their society will influence their views of language learning, whether these attitudes are
thoroughly positive or somewhat negative. 2. Significant others
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Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English Language Teaching, London: Longman, 1991, p.3
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J.P. Chaplin, The Psychological Dictionary, Jakarta: Raja Grafindo Persada, 2000, p. 148
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H. Douglas Brown, , Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, USA: Prentice Hall Regents, 1993, p. 152.
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J.P. Chaplin, The Psychological Dictionary, Jakarta: Raja Grafindo Persada, 2000, P. 148
A part from the culture of the world around students, their attitude to language learning will be greatly affected by the influence of people
who are close to them. The attitude of parents and older siblings will be crucial.
3. Teacher The attitudes of a student’s peers are also crucial, if they are criticizing
of the subject or activity. The student’s own motivation make they are enthusiastic learners, however, they will be enjoy in learning.
Clearly the major factor of the student’s motivation is the teacher. Here it is worth pointing out that his or her attitudes to the language
and the task of learning will be vital. An obvious enthusiasm for English learning, in this case, would seem to be prerequisites for a
positive classroom atmosphere. 4. Method.
It is vital that both teacher and students have some confidence in the way of teaching and learning take place.
When either loses this confidence, motivation can be disastrously affected, but when both are comfortable with
the method being used, success is much more likely. All of those sources are an interrelated between one to another.
The environment without the attitude of parents can’t motivate students to get a good role. The teacher without a
good method in teaching can’t motivate a student to like his lesson as well as possible till he gets a good result in
learning.
3. Kinds of Motivation
