CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Many people in the world speak English as a first language or as a second language. Formally, English is studied from Junior high school till university. In
Indonesia, English subject especially in junior high school has already become as a compulsory subject and it is one of the requirements to pass to national exam.
Therefore, students are expected to master English. However in reality most students are not able to master English. This can be proven by the average of
students’ grades are categorized low. Besides that through the writer’s experience when teaching in the classroom, she still finds that the students are still incapable
to use English well whether in oral or in written. For instance, the students’ reading ability still become a problem, their
understanding in comprehending the reading text is low. In listening, they cannot understand what the speaker said; in writing they still have some mistakes in
using grammar and in organizing the idea. In speaking, they have difficulty in pronouncing the words and they cannot express what they want to utterance.
There are so many factors that can affect the low of level the students’ ability in English.
Externally, the factors that can influence the English students’ ability are environment, parent, teacher, method, media etc. Internally, the factors that can
affect English ability are interest, attitude, intelligence, personality, and learning style including motivation. Motivation is one of the factors that are regarded as
factors that can cause the low level of student ability. The term of motivation as used in school applies to learning situations
where the teacher is attempting to create in a students’ desire or drive for attaining specific objectives. Two educational psychologists, Gilhotra and Callender said
that many factors the obvious importance in determining the success of a second language learner, and one of the factor is motivation.
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In teaching learning process, motivation is the important factor, because motivation can make the students interest to the lesson. For students who have a
high motivation, they will have energy to learn. Therefore, the students who have a high intelligence are not being granted to be successful in learning process.
Motivation can be function as a drive to achieve the goal. Someone act something because shehe has a drive to achieve the actor’s goal.
B. Identification of the Problem
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