Language Learning Motivation

Language Learning Motivation

English language is an internastional language, which is often used in most countries in the world. Indonesia is one of the countries which take English as a foreign language after the Indonesian language. English is very important to use in many aspects. For example: education. Almost all of Indonesian education institutions, whether elementary, junior, senior high school or college and even non-formal education, use English in their teaching and learning activity. So that, English language has been included in the curriculum of Indonesia, although the students are required to speak English frequently, the result is not good enough yet. In fact there are still many alumnus who can not use speak English well. Student often have a problem, when they accept the lesson from the teacher. Some student lazy to learn the material. So the teacher must be a motivator from their student.  

Motivation is defined as the process that initiates, guides and maintains goal-oriented behaviors. Motivation is what causes us to act, whether it is getting a glass of water to reduce thirst or reading a book to gain knowledge.  

Motivation can help the learning process to be more dynamic. The point is that students in the design not only sit and listen the material without doing any other activities that relates to the material, but students can develop the material with their own styles with the teacher as a motivator and facilitator. Basically, the most important point in teaching and learning English is making students feel comfortable in any condition, especially when the students get the materials. When the students do not comfortable to learn, the process of transferring knowledge will never be understood by them, because students learn with the under pressure, ever though we never do it in the learning process. In fact, this is the problem which faced by the teachers, the students are not interested to follow English lesson. This is because the less of motivation, so that the students cannot be taught material optimally. The less of students' motivation in learning English in particular result in student learning outcomes are not optimal. So that the students will think English is very difficult to be learn. This indicates that they lose motivation to learn. So they need a solution to increase the motivation to learn English in particular. According Wahyudi MCHt ST (2010) said, almost all of teachers in Indonesia are professional but not necessarily easy to be love the students. Therefore, a teacher must be able to be a role model, always providing encouragement, motivation, and happiness for the future of the nation is determined by the way the teachers teach.

In conclution, motivation is very important in learning English. Anyway, every human being has motivation inside or outside themselves. All we have to do is stimulate that motivation so it can make us get and reach our dream. Anyhow, we can conclude that motivation can help the student  it could be better if we combined those motivation become one. By combining those motivations, it can make a great impact on how we are supposed to do in learning English.

References :

http://psychology.about.com/od/mindex/g/motivation-definition.htm



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