This research was conducted to answer the following research questions: 1.
How is a homeschooling student’s motivation in learning English? 2.
How does the language environment affect the English proficiency of a homeschooling student?
C. FINDINGS
By interviewing the subject of this study, it showed that the motivation and language environment had contribution to the English proficiency. It could be gained from
the test result, interview, and observation. There is result from the interview that the object has high motivation in learning English. It revealed that the subject of this study liked
what was being learned in the meeting. He also thought that learning what was being taught in every meeting was important for him. Besides, due to the importance of
studying, he tried to put together all the information from meeting and from the book. Moreover, he always tried to understand what the teacher said. She also learned from his
mistakes when he had bad scores on the tests. He copied her notes over to help him in remembering the material. Even she did exercises and answers all the questions the end of
chapter when he did not have to. Moreover, he kept working like as usual even the material was uninteresting and boring. He learned from his previous assignments and also
textbook to do his new assignments. He always tried to do his best and he also works hard to get good scores. He also tried to connect the things he read with what he already knows.
By the activities and things, she did, it could be said that he had high motivation in learning English. The most significant thing was that he got much inspiration from his
uncle. His uncle could speak English very well and he knew more about English literature and art. Therefore, he wanted to be like her uncle who had the same hobby which was
having interest in art and literature and also could speak English fluently. In order to be like his uncle, he did many things and activities that could increase his motivation to learn
English.
Then another factor which was language environment also affected the English proficiency of the object. He had good environment which can encourage his proficiency of
English. The nearest environment was his family member. He always spoke English with his grandfather, who was also English literate, every day. His mother also spoke English
with him, but not as frequent as his grandfather. Not only his mother and grandfather who could speak English, but also his uncle and his father could speak English although only a
little. Thus, his family became the main language environment which boosts his proficiency. Besides the family, he often spoke English with his friends. Moreover, he also
developed his English by communicating intensively with his teachers not only face-to- face but also via social media. Therefore, his good English skill was greatly affected by the
language environment where she involved to.
D. DISCUSSION
From the findings of the study, it could be seen that both motivation and language environment have the important role in increasing her proficiency of English. It supported
the theory from Lightbown and Spada 1993 that claimed the attitudes and motivation were indeed related to successful second L2 learning but it had not been indicated how
they did so. Moreover, it was in line with the findings of some previous researchers that claimed that the motivation influenced the second language learning Gardner, 1985, cited
in Lightbown and Spada, 1993. Furthermore, from the findings of the study, it was possible to say that language environment also affected his English proficiency. Krashen
