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showing interests to learning activities; 4 being independent; 5 being able to defense arguments; 6 not easily giving up on things he she believes; 7 being excited in looking for and solving difficult questions. Characteristics of learning motivation according to Hamzah B. Uno 2008: 23 are classified into: 1 passions and desires to be successful; 2 motivation and needs to learn; 3 hopes and dreams in the future; 4 awards in learning; 5 stimulating activities; 6 conducive learning environments. From the characteristics above, students who have high motivation tend to be diligent in learning. They do not get bored easily. They are persistent when they face problems in learning. It means that they do not give up easily when they find difficulties in learning activities. They like to solve problems because there are desires and motivation to achieve success in the future. 4 The Efforts to Build Learning Motivation Motivation is one of the factors that influences the effectiveness of learning processes. Motivation pushes students to actively engage in the learning activities. If a student does not have motivation in learning, it will disturb the learning processes. Therefore, teachers need to do efforts to build students’ learning motivation in order to stimulate them to engage to the learning activities. Students’ interests to learning activities will influence to students’ understanding to the materials as well. There are some ways to build students’ learning motivation at school Sardjiman, 2003: 91-95, such as: giving students rewards, additional scores, rivals or competitions, ego- involvement, tests, tests’ results, praise, punishments, passions to learn, interests, and admitted purposes. Based on the explanation above, it is said that a teacher does not function only to transfer knowledge, but also to build students’ learning motivation. A teacher has to know how to build students’ learning motivation by giving rewards, praise, or additional scores. Meanwhile, competitions, rivals, or punishments aim to stimulate students to study harder. 5 The Indicators of Motivation Assessment According to Hamzah B. Uno 2012: 23, the indicators of motivation assessment are classified as follows: a There are passions and desires to be successful which are proven by the students’ desires to achieve success in the learning processes. b There are motivation within students to learn. c Students make efforts to achieve a goal in the future. d Students get scores and awards that trigger them to do better