Low Motivation in Learning Speaking

Abstract

This study is aimed to identify the motivation of students in learning Speaking. At first, it is found out that there were 50% of the students still have low motivation in learning speaking. This research was a qualitative research that describes the condition of students in learning speaking. The writer tried to use another method which is called Cooperative Leaning to enhance students’ motivation in learning speaking. After doing it for some period of time, it showed a result that at the end of the course, students who have low motivation decrease to 20% only. By applying cooperative learning, teacher only plays a little part in speaking in one meeting. The teacher only gives a short explanation about the lesson and then guide the students to do the rest of the activities. The improvement can be seen obviously. The percentage of students who have lack of motivation in speaking decrease significantly. Only 20 % that still feel shy to speak in front of the class, but if we put them in group, they want to participate although still play small parts in their group. They enjoy and are satisfy in learning process. Moreover, they concern with the next speaking activities.Keywords: low motivation, speaking, cooperative learning.

Exploring English Teachers' Difficulties in Teaching Speaking

“…This affects speaking learning because motivation greatly influences students' development in learning. This is in line with (Putri, 2016) who states that these factors heavily influence speaking acquisition, as motivation is critical for learners to develop new language proficiency. Likewise, anxiety is related to feelings of tension, worry, and nervousness related to foreign language learning situations (Horwitz et al quoted in Nascente, 2001).…”

Motivation in the classroom to develop English Speaking skills

“…Motivation plays an important part in today's L2 learning process especially for University students in Ecuador. According to (Putri, 2016) motivation makes a person want to learn. So, without it, he or she will definitely fail to make the required effort, making it considerable to be used in the classroom.…”

Enhancing Heterogeneous Student's Motivation in Speaking English Through Stad Method

“…Brown (2007) argued that the extent to which students are intrinsically or extrinsically driven to succeed in English task success is the most critical aspect of the whole motivation construct. As the result of observation from the preliminary study, there are several reasons why students have low motivation in speaking English as follows: 1) feeling afraid to make mistakes; 2) foreign language is tricky, confusing, and complicated; and also 3) the class' atmosphere (Putri, 2016). In this case, the teacher, as a researcher, needs to find things that can increase students' motivation to learn English, especially speaking.…”