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B. Review of Related Studies
Atef Saleh Al-Tamini and Munir Shuib was investigating the motivation and attitudes of the students in learning English at Hadhramout University of
Sciences and Technology HUST
.
One of the research objectives of the study was to investigate and identify the students’ attitudes towards learning English as
their language course for 2 semester in their first year
.
The research sample consisted of 81 students who studied in the academic year 2006-2007 in the
Department of Petroleum Engineering DPE at HUST
.
To collect the data, they used questionnaires and interview
.
The result showed that most of the participants had positive attitudes towards learning English language
.
There was a research conducted in Japan by Benson 1991 who surveyed over 300 freshmen to investigate their motivation and attitudes towards learning
the English language
.
The results showed that integrative and personal sets of goal were important factors in motivation among Japanese college students
.
Another study by Sarjit 1993 was carried out to investigate the language needs of the consultants at a company
.
Learner’s motivation was the main concern in the study
.
The research participants consisted of 26 consultants, one instructor and four directors
.
To gather the data, the researcher used questionnaires, interview and field observation
.
The results of the study showed that instrumental
19 motivation was the main reason for learning the English language followed by
personal motivation
.
C. Theoretical Framework
From the discussion in theoretical description, the researcher establishes a theoretical framework for this research
.
The researcher is concerned with all theories about motivation
.
Indeed, people will do their best if they are highly motivated to do something
.
Motivation is an important thing; to gain the motivation is to gain our own desire and our own willingness
.
Based on the researcher
’s experiences in teaching English classes, some students in those classes tended to be passive and keep silent if the teacher asked them them about
something
.
Only few of them seemed actively involved in each activity given by the teacher
.
In the theoretical description, from the theories the researcher elaborated motivation into two types, instrumental and integrative
.
The researcher also elaborates other factors which might affect the motivation of the students of
SMK N 1 Depok Sleman
.
From the discussion of each part, the researcher is able to design the research instrument to know what type of motivation that the
students of SMK N 1 Depok Sleman have
.
The theories about motivation are used to answer the first research problem
.
The researcher also elaborates the theories about attitudes towards learning English
.
Mostly, the theories about attitude towards learning English talk about the types of attitudes and from the discussion
20 about the attitude theories, the researcher categorizes attitudes towards learning
English into two types, positive and negative
.
The theories about attitudes are used to answer the second research problems
.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter deals with the methodology used in conducting this study
.
It consists of research method, research participants, research instruments, data
gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedure
.
A. Research Method
This study was conducted to identify SMK N 1 Depok students’ motivational and attitudinal orientations in learning English language
.
To achieve the objective, two research instruments were used, questionnaire and interview
.
The research was conducted in a survey study and made use of quantitative and qualitative data
.
To get the reliable data to analyze, the researcher had selected to gain quantitative data from the questionnaire to be calculated precisely
.
On the other hand, the data from the interview was analyzed using a content analysis
method to get qualitative data
.
B. Research Participants
The research participants of this study were the 1
st
grade students of SMK N 1 Depok Yogyakarta
.
The researcher decided the school as the research field because he had once practiced teaching there for 3 months. Thus the researcher
was quite familiar with the condition of the school
.
The target students’ population in this study was all the 1
st
grade students who studied in the academic year 2013-2014 in SMK N 1 Depok
.
A random sampling technique was employed
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