Motivation The Responses of Students’ Interview
The data from the questionnaire helps the researcher to describe the students’ att
itude, discipline, and motivation aspect. Students’ attitude, discipline, and motivation aspect could be identified in the questionnaire section using Likert scale score. This
close-ended questionnaire has 5-points Likert scale that reveals the data in the forms of interval data which are then converted into nominal categorical data. The data are
converted to make them able to be operated by using statistical analysis of Multiple Regression.
The questionnaire items were divided into three parts; they were attitude part, discipline part, and motivation part. Therefore, when the students were asked to respond
on some questionnaire items about their attitude, discipline, and motivation, all the students gave their own evaluation. More than half of the students gave the positive
evaluation. The explanation of the themes would be presented below.
1 Students’ Attitude
The first theme in the questionnaire was about students’ attitude on learning English language. The first statement in the questionnaire was
“I am
quite confident
with my English skill”. It was to know the students’ confidence in using English language. The result of the questionnaire showed that
mostly the students were doubt and not confident with their English skill
. It may because by the students ’ frequency and
opportunity to communicate in English. The students had limited time and opportunity to communicate in English and even they had no chance to communicate in English
outside the classrooms. Besides, the students’ environment does not support the students to communicate in English.
The second statement is “I have a big effort on achieving my academic goals”.
The next point was about the students’ efforts on achieving the academic goals. The students agreed that they have a big effort on achieving the academic goal. If the learner
is reluctant to learn or heshe does not have a big effort, heshe does not produce any result.
The third statement is “The improvement of knowledge, skill, attitude, and
responsibility can help me to have a better life quality in the future”. The students agree with the statement. It could be shown from the result of questionnaire. Every student
came from the English language major thus certainly they have to improve English language in all skills. Those factors influenced the students’ way of thinking of the
English learning. The fourth statement is
“The improvement of knowledge, ski
ll, attitude and
responsibility help to get a better job”. The students agreed with the statement. Since “improving skills” is considered as such an important avenue to achieving goals, the
next set of questions became even more relevant. The next statement is
“Making mistakes when learning foreign language is a common thing”. The students agreed that making mistakes when learning foreign
language was a common thing, especially for beginners. That statement was supported by the result of the questionnaire. The average score indicated that the students had
positive response towards the statement because
making mistakes when learning foreign language was a common thing, moreover students could learn from their mistakes and
making mistakes also could not decre
ase the students’ self
-confidence
. Besides, people PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI