The Portrait of Students’ Motivation Upon The Use of Authentic Materials in ESP  

Oleh:

Yuliawaty, Lely ; Kusumawaty, Desy

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 125-135.
Topik: motivation; authentic materials; ESP
Fulltext: hal 125.pdf (15.05MB)

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Some fresh graduates face difficulties to get along with their new work environment, they tend to be wobbling and take some time to get adapted, plant and associate the knowledge they obtained from their campus to their position at work. The textbooks used are sometimes being questioned of their success since their lack of having actual and motivating quality. Thus, materials given during courses are carefully selected to meet the students’ needs and motivate them to study. One of materials is called authentic materials and the researcher aims to present Students’ view on the use of authentic materials towards their motivation to study English. The method of the research was quantitative and comparative analysis. The researcher obtains the data and findings through questionnaire survey, the respondents are the second year students at an academy of Fire and Safety Department. The data and findings are presented in the form of comparative analysis. To gain the sufficient data same questionnaires which consist of eighteen closeended questions were given twice or in two rounds. The first round was given before the authentic materials utilized and the second one was given after the authentic materials given in 5 meetings. The data collected shows that the percentage of authentic materials use in purpose to study English increases. It means that the students are more motivated to study English by the use of authentic materials. Thus, it is suggested for teachers to use authentic materials since it enhances students’ motivation and excellence in learning languages as well.

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