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JUVRIANTO CJ (15B01130)

RESEARCH TITLE: STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND ATTITUDE IN LEARNING

ENGLISH USING COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE

LEARNING (CALL) IN EFL CLASSROOM

Students’ motivation nowadays is a major issue in teaching and learning process.

Seville-Troike (2006:85-86) claims that individual motivation is another factor that is used to

explain why some English learners are more successful than others. The level of effort that

learners expand at various stages in their English development depends on how motivated

they are to learn. The more motivated students are, the easier they will learn a new language.

Students’ motivation is commonly argue, because of it is not that simple to enhance and

encourage the students’ motivation to be higher than before. Teachers and some researchers

tried to do some methods to encourage the students’ motivation. They tried to do it by both

using the materials with rich of content and appealing the students to be engaged to the

learning process. Even if they have done those things, most students failed to find themselves

engaged and focus to the learning experience.

Related to motivation, there is on aspect that we cannot leave behind in learning

English, namely students’ attitude. Ellis (1994:197-201) claims that leaners’ attitudes have

been identified as one set of variables of major importance. The attitudes are shaped by the

social factors, which, in turn influence learners outcome. The attitude of students might be

positive or negative attitude, depending the on the way teachers guide them. Students’

attitude takes its own role in learning process. The writer tried to engage both the aspect from

students’ motivation and attitude. That is because, if students show a good and higher

motivation, that will be more possibly that they will also show a good attitude in the process

of teaching and learning English.

In this study, the writer will try to use computer-assisted language learning (CALL) as

a part of his teaching materials in order to increase the students’ motivation and attitude. With

the expansion of CALL, more questions have been raised. Issues of learning style,

motivation, attitude, personality and some other factors have come to the fore with the use of

computers. Students who see CALL as an important part of the course also have a high level

of motivation and attitude in learning English. In addition, motivation, the process whereby

goal-directed activity is instigated and sustained (Pintrich & Schunk, 2002), is one of the keys

that influence the rate and success of language learning (Dörnyei, 1998).With the

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considerations of this widely growth of the computer in this era, it makes teacher and

researcher more possibly to design an interactive learning material which can be used to teach

the students.

Based on the previous observing, the writer analyzed that there was an issue between

the students’ motivation and attitude and their achievement in learning English. As Pu

(2009), conducted a study and found that the students’ motivation level in learning English

was affected by the use of computer in learning; the writer also found that students were lack

on their motivation and it brings a negative impact towards their attitude in learning English.

The gap is some of the researches only emphasized to the students’ achievement in learning

English without considering their motivation and attitude and did not try to fix it.

The other research were conducted to analyze the correlation between the using of computer

towards students’ learning process and another one conducted to clarified the issues related to

activities that students did using computer and their attitude when using computer. The main

differences with this study are, those researches were conducted in overseas and none of them

tried to combine both motivation and attitude with using computer-assisted language

learning. In this study, the writer will use several media such as English software and CD-

ROMs as part of his teaching materials to know the effect of using CALL towards the

students’ motivation and attitude in a junior high school in Parepare.

The main aim of this study is to learn more about the students’ motivation and attitude

towards learning English using computer-assisted language learning (CALL). The

subordinate aim is to investigate and discuss the effect of using computer-assisted language

learning (CALL) towards students’ motivation and attitude. Hopefully, this study will help

students particularly, in learning English with higher motivation and attitude and teacher in

general in teaching English using CALL.

References:

Dörnyei, Z & Otto, I. 1998. Applied Linguistic. Motivation in action: a process model of L2

motivation.

Ellis, Rod. 1994. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University

Press.

Saville-Troike, Muriel. 2006. Introducing Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

Pintrich, P. R & Schunk, D. H. 2002. Motivation in Education: Theory, Research, and

Application. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Pu. M. 2009. An Investigation of The Relationship Between College Chinese EFL Students’

Autonomous Learning Capacity and Motivation in Using Computer-Assisted

Language Learning. Unpublished Dissertation.