38 improving her English proficiency. According to Cooper and Fishman 1977,
p.112, the statement from student 6 can be categorized into personal motivation. According to them, personal motivation refers to motivation relating to personal
reason of satisfaction
,
this is including activities such as watching English-dub movies and reading books in English language
.
B. SMK N 1 Depok Students’ Attitudes towards Learning English
1. Questionnaire Results
To indentify the students’ attitudes towards learning English, ten questions for domain 3: Attitudes Towards Learning English adapted
from Gardner’s Attitude and Motivation Test Battery AMTB were distributed
.
The data will be prensented in terms of the distribution of frequenciespercentages and the total
means value for each domain
.
The means are simply the average calculation of the responses with 1 point assigned for “strongly disagree”, 2 for “disagree”, 3 for
“do not know”, 4 for “agree”, 5 for “strongly agree”
.
In this part, the researcher presents the results of the questionnaire for domain 1 and 2
.
a. Domain 3: Attitudes towards Learning English
Item number 1-10 Freq
perc Agree
Disagree Don’t
know Total
Mea n
Std The development of our
country is possible mainly by educated people who
know English well Freq
76 5 9
90 4
.
12
.
81 Perc
84
.
44 5
.
56 10
100 When I hear someone Freq
89 1 90
Table 4.5 Frequencies, Percentages, and Mean scores for items of domain 2
39
In this domain, it is worth to mention that there are 5 negatively worded questions, they are the item number 3, 4, 6, 7 and 10
.
Figures in table 4.5 shows a total mean score 3
.
86 of the 1st grade students of SMK N 1 Depok Sleman had postitive attitudes towards learning English
.
In other words, the great majority of the participants liked English language 64
.
44 and wish they could speak
speaks English well, I wish I could speak like
him Perc
98
.
89 1
.
11 100
4
.
48
.
52 Learning English is a
waste of time Freq
0 78 12
90 4
.
26
.
67 Perc
86
.
67 13
.
33 100
I hate English Freq
10 58 22
90 3
.
74
.
95 Perc
11
.
11 64
.
44 24
.
45 100
At least some subject like Economy and Accounting
should be
taught in
English Freq
19 55 16
90 2
.
37 1
.
17 Perc
21
.
11 61
.
11 17
.
78 100
English should not be a compulsory subject in
secondary schools
in Indonesia
Freq 2 72
16 90
4
.
12
.
77 Perc
2
.
22 80
17
.
78 100
The teaching
English should not starts as early
as the first grade in Indonesian schools
Freq 5 77
8 90
4
.
17
.
89 Perc
5
.
56 85
.
55 8
.
89 100
English is
a very
important part of school program
Freq 81 2
7 90
4
.
23
.
68 Perc
90 2
.
22 7
.
78 100
I really enjoy learning English
Freq 59 8
23 90
3
.
76
.
93 Perc
65
.
56 8
.
89 25
.
55 100
English should not be the medium of instruction in
the secondary schools in Indonesia
Freq 30 42
18 90
3
.
26 1
.
31 Perc
33
.
33 46
.
67 20
100
Total percentage 72
.
33 13
.
111 14
.
556 100
Total 3
.
86
.
87
40 English well 98
.
89
.
They believed that English is important 90 and should be a compulsory subject in secondary schools level in Indonesia 80
.
While 61
.
11 disagreed that Economic and Accounting subject should be taught in English
.
Item number 1 signalled that 84
.
44 of the participants agreed that the development of their country is posible mainly by educated people who know
English well
.
Language attitude is an important concept because it plays a key role in language in language learning and teaching
.
Attitudes are somewhat indirectly related to second language achievement
.
Karahan 2007, p
.
84 states that “positive attitudes let learner have positive orientation towards learning English”
.
In other words, improving the positive attitude of the students towards a particular subject may increase their desire to learn it and ability to apply what they have
been taught
.
A broader definition of attitudes was stated by Wenden 1991
.
Wenden categorize the term “attitudes” into three components, namely cognitive, affective and behavioral
.
Beliefs and ideas or opinions about the object of the attitude construct the cognitive component
.
The affective component refers to the feeling and emotions that one has towards an object, the feeling of ‘likes’ or
‘dislikes’ or ‘with’ or ‘against’
.
The behavio ral component refers to someone’s
consisting actions or behavioral intentions towards the object
.
According to those components describes by Wenden, the results show the students’ attitudes
demonstrated the great emphasis only on the cognitive e
.
g The development of
41 our country is possible mainly by educated people who know English well,
English should not be a compulsory subject in secondary schools in Indonesia, The teaching English should not start as early as the first grade in Indonesian
schools, English is a very important part of school program, English should not be
the medium of instruction in the secondary schools in Indonesia and affective
e
.
g
.
I hate English, learning English is a waste of time, When I hear someone speaks English well I wish I could speak like him and I really enjoy learning
English components
.
2. Interview Results
