An analysis of motivation in learning english at The Grade VIII Students Of Mts S Islamiyah Kotapinang Labuhanbatu Selatan

Syahri, Nia (2022) An analysis of motivation in learning english at The Grade VIII Students Of Mts S Islamiyah Kotapinang Labuhanbatu Selatan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about students ‘Motivation in Learning English at Grade VIII MTs S Islamiyah Kotapinang Labuhanbatu Selatan. The problem of the research that the students had low desire and enthusiasm in learning especially learning English. The purpose was to know students’ dominant motivation and to found out how was the students’ motivation level in learning English at Grade VIII MTs.S Islamiyah Kotapinang Labuhanbatu Selatan. So, some of the students did not enjoy with learning English. The aim of this research was to analysis students’motivation in learning English at grade VIII MTs S Islamiyah Kotapinang. . The kind of this research was quantitative research where the method was descriptive method. The population of this research was grade VIII MTs S Islamiyah Kotapinang Labuhanbatu Selatan. The sample of this research 39 students of the second grade of MTs S Islamiyah Kotapinang. The researher took the sample by using simple random sampling. To collect the data, the researcher used questionnaire to know students’motivation in learning English. Then, to analyzed the data, the researcher used the SPSS, Microsoft Excel,and a fivepoint likert scale as motivation level measurement. At the result of this research, the researcher found that the total score of students’ intrinsic motivation was 1288, the mean score was 3.29. The total score of students’extrinsic motivation was 1417 and the mean score was 3.63. The researher found that there were 11 students had high motivation and 28 students had moderate motivation which the total score was 3.47. Therefore, in average the students have moderate level of motivation, based on the interpretation from the total score (3.47) of Five-Point Likert scale. The students’motivation dominant in learning English was extrinsic motivation which the total score was 3.63, meanwhile the intrinsic motivation score was 3.29 which was interpreted as a moderate motivation level.

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