Definition of Mastery Vocabulary Mastery
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d Motivation
Motivation is as inner factor that functions for making, basing and pointing to the learning. Motivation separates into two main
categories: extrinsic motivation, which is concerned with factor outside the classroom, and intrinsic motivation, which is concerned
with what takes place inside the classroom.
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Students’ motivation can determine the good or bad in their learning achievement. The
higher motivation they have, the higher learning success they will get.
e Mental health
In learning process, there is not only about intelligence but also about their mental health that will make the good result in learning
process. In addition, if the students get successful in their learning, they will have self-esteem.
b. External factor
External factor is the factor that comes from out of the individual. This factor involves social environment and non social environment.
1. Social environment
The social environment here is the human environment outside students who have contact directly with them such as family, school,
neighbors and mass media. Family is the first center of education. But it can be the cause of
learning difficulties if the families give less attention to their children. Social environment in school such as teachers, staff administration and
classmates can influence the students. The teacher can be a cause for learning difficulties when:
a Unqualified teachers
b Bad relationship between the teacher and the student
c High learning standard from the teacher
d No skill in diagnosing the students learning difficulties
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Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English Language Teaching, … p. 3.
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e Unsuitable method
1 Non social environment
The factors which include the non social environment are location of students’ house, the school’s building, learning instrument, curriculum,
and school timing.
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Other expert, Abin S. Makmun in his book Psikologi Kependidikan:Perangkat Sistem Pengajaran Modul, state that causes
for learning difficulty are:
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a. Feeling insecurity
b. Phobia
c. Immaturity
d. Habits and wrong attitude
e. Nervous
f. Lazy, not cooperative and buck passing responsibility
g. Excessively absent
h. Anxiety and feeling down to concentration
i. Large population in the classroom making uncomfortable
j. Much activity out side classroom “extrakulikuler”
k. Often changing school or program
l. Course of study out of date
m. School site that is very noisy and strange