An Analysis Of Psychological Factors On Second Year Students During Pandemic Covid-19 In Learning English Subject At SMAN 5 Tanah Putih

Susendang, Widya (2021) An Analysis Of Psychological Factors On Second Year Students During Pandemic Covid-19 In Learning English Subject At SMAN 5 Tanah Putih. Other thesis, Universitas Islam Riau.

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An Analysis of Psychological Factors on Second Year Students during Pandemic COVID-19 at SMAN 5 Tanah Putih. Attitude can be defined as a collection of behaviours and beliefs that are owned by someone and how a person reacts towards something that is faced by him or her. In language learning, attitude is a set of students’ beliefs and behaviours towards the language. Attitude also relates to motivation. Motivation is a strong desire that exists in human in order to achieve the satisfaction experienced in learning process and its outcomes. According to previous research done by various researchers, it is said that attitude and motivation hold an important role in language learning. During this COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of things happened in the world which also affects the education system around the world. Schools are closed and learning system is changed. The aim of this research is to know the second year students’ attitude and motivation towards English learning during Covid-19 pandemic at SMAN 5 Tanah Putih. This research was qualitative. The instrument used in this research was questionnaire based on Gardner’s. There were 33 questions that can be divided into 5 aspects. They were the personal aspect, the emotional aspect, the educational aspect, the professional aspect, and the parental aspect. 30 participants were asked to fill the questionnaire. The data collection was conducted in September 2021. The result shows that most of the students were highly motivated and had positive attitude towards learning English. The students think that learning English is important because of many factors. It can be seen that 63,3% of the students want to be more educated, and if they could speak English, they believe people will also respect them more. Additionally, the students (76,7%) have a strong desire to learn English because they have curiousity to learn about other cultures and want to learn about English and its cultures. Moreover, 73,3% of the students agreed and were excited to learn English in their school because the teacher is very good at teaching them and the students think learning English at their school is not boring. They also think English is needed when they are looking for good job in the future as well as for their career (almost 90% students agreed). Their parents also tried and helped them to learn English as well because their parents think English is important. Keywords: Attitude, motivation, English, language learning, pandemic COVID-19

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