STUDENT’S MOTIVATION IN CHOOSING ENGLISH AS ADDITIONAL COURSE IN SMA 1 BENGKULU

The type of this research is Descriptive Qualitative and quantitative research. It
is aimed to find out the motivation which make students in XII Social 6 choose
English as an additional subject course and to find out the highest motivation
which make students in XII Social 6 choose English as an additional subject
course. The subject of this study is the students in class XII social 6 SMAN 1
Kota Bengkulu. In this research, the researcher collected the data by using
questionnaire. Then, the data obtained from the questionnaires will be analyzed
using SPSS program. The data concerning subjects’ general background as well
as their comments will be calculated and presented in percentage. A Likert scale
will be used to measure the level and type of subjects’ learning motivation.
According to table that the researcher used to analyze extrinsic and intrinsic
motivation of students in choosing English as additional subject, the researcher
got the result that show the extrinsic motivation is the dominant reason chosen
by the students when they chose English as their additional subject course at
school than intrinsic motivation. It can be seen from the calculation scores of
students intrinsic and extrinsic motivation that showed the total of mean score
for extrinsic motivation is 3.16 and the total mean score for intrinsic motivation
is 3.10. There are several extrinsic reasons from the students, for example the
students prepare to learn English because they want to continue the study or get
the works, go abroad and want to try to communicate with the foreigner.
Keywords: Motivation, Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, Curriculum,
Additional course of English