The Differences between the Students with High Motivation and Those with Low Motivation

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2. The Differences between the Students with High Motivation and Those with Low Motivation

Students have different characteristics in facing learning activities in their class. The students with high motivation of learning usually pay attention and have a good attitude in participating in the learning process. They tend to be active and pay attention to the learning process. In the class activities, they also pay better attention to the teacher’s explanation and instruction, ask critical questions, give suggestions, share ideas, etc. Some of them are motivated by themselves to study. It means that they have intrinsic motivation. These types of students are active, care, curious, having good participation, and having their own spirit to study for getting competency and skill. Students who have high motivation in learning because they self-awareness to learn. On the contrary, the tendency of low motivation students is they prefer being passive to being active in a learning process. The students who have low motivation are silent, lazy, shy, and afraid at doing something, and because they afraid of making mistakes. They prefer to be silent to be active. Moreover, they are usually not enthusiastic to get more than what their teacher has taught. Students who have low motivation are commonly generated by some cases such as low awareness to do something and intelligence as well. As has been stated previously that motivation is needed by giving stimulate to somebody’s interest. The stimulation given will cause someone to do something. To stimulate the students mean to motivate them to do something in getting the objective. Motivation is a support, desire, want, reason, or objective to commit to user 52 make someone to do something. A support can be appearing from the students themselves or other persons surrounding them that have them do something.Based on these ideas the students are called having high motivation when they are usually those who share enthusiastically in class, express interest in the subject- matter, and study a great deal. Meanwhile, the students are called having low motivation because of not having interest to the teacher, material given, and situation will get bad score of English. Based on the above elaboration, it can be stated that the students who have high motivation will be easier to understand the text given because they are more motivated in finding out the solution when they are faced by the difficulties in reading comprehension. Otherwise, the students who have low motivation will have difficulty in understanding the text given because they are less motivated in solving their problems. This is sometimes caused by their enthusiasm in doing something, especially in comprehending the text itself. Thus, it is supposed that the students having high motivation have better reading ability than those having low motivation.

3. The Interaction between Teaching Method and Student’s Motivation