STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH (A Descriptive Research at Eleventh Grade of SMA Islam Pekalongan in Academic Year of 2022/2023)

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the motivation level in learning English from eleventh-grade students of SMA Islam Pekalongan. This study uses descriptive qualitative method. There were 37 students from 2 classes which are Eleventh Mathematic Science class consists of 18 students and Eleventh Social class consists of 19 students of SMA Islam Pekalongan as research subjects. This study used questionnaire as an instrument. The questionnaire used Likert scale as questionnaire scores for each answer category. There are 20 statements consists of 10 statements about intrinsic motivation and 10 statements about extrinsic motivation. The writer classified the types of motivation level using a theory about the level of students’ motivation from Arikunto (2009). The results of the study found that Eleventh Mathematic Science is superior in intrinsic motivation level (32,7) while Eleventh Social class is superior in extrinsic motivation level (27,73). Besides, eleventh-grade students of SMA Islam Pekalongan have good intrinsic motivation level (31,83) and good extrinsic motivation level (27,7). It can be concluded that the eleventh-grade students of SMA Islam Pekalongan have higher intrinsic motivation level than extrinsic motivation level.