Abstract
AbstractThis research aims to investigate motivation and dominant motivation which students have at bilingual education system at SMP Plus Amanah Islamic Boarding School Tasikmalaya. This research employed a qualitative research design in the form of constructivist grounded theory. A modified questionnaire which was adopted from Gardner’s Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) and structured interview questions were conducted. The results showed that the students have integrative and instrumental motivation but they tend to be slightly more instrumentally motivated. The highest indicator items showed that students think that learning English can make them be a more knowledgeable person. Further, the student’s reason related to their motivation in learning English come up from the interview. It encompassed both integrative and instrumental motivation. For the reasons related to instrumental motivation, students learn English to get profitable career, to go traveling, to study or work abroad, to pass the test (school/job requirement), to participate in English competition, to understand English music, and to get high social status. Whilst for integrative motivation, they learn English to communicate with varied people from other countries, and they are interested in learning the language as well as the culture as their insight. Keywords: integrative motivation, instrumental motivation, bilingual education system, learning English
Highlights
Learning a second language is learning a foreign language as well as the culture to be able to interact with second language community
According to Gardner (1985, p.54) integrative motivation is an eager to learn the language in order to understand the language, be able to communicate with foreigners, and engage in a second language group
The findings showed that the students tended to have both integrative and instrumental motivation, but instrumental motivation got higher score than integrative one
Summary
Learning a second language is learning a foreign language as well as the culture to be able to interact with second language community. Islamic students who stay and study in boarding school is usually called santri The further result from the interview, the students’ reason related to integrative motivation were they like the language, they would like to be part of foreign language speaker community in order to be able to talk with. The other investigation was whether the students information which was obtained from the results of the data of the mainly integratively motivated or instrumentally motivated towards questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire and interview were conducted in this were the students of SMP Plus Amanah Islamic boarding school Tasikmalaya, study. The study was employed to Tasikmalaya indicated to have high investigate the students’ motivation in integrative and instrumental learning English.
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