Indonesian University Students’ Demotivation in Learning English as a Foreign Language

Puput Nur Khofifah, Rusfandi

2018

Abstract

Investigating EFL learners’ demotivation is essential since the results provide feedbacks in better helping the learners to study English. The institutions providing English teaching and learning also benefit from the results of such research as they relate to how the institutions improve learning resources available in the institutions. Despite its usefulness, however, there are still limited studies about EFL students’ demotivation particularly within Indonesian contexts. The purpose of this research is to investigate factors affecting demotivation of English department students of a private university in Indonesia. A questionnaire was distributed to 124 participants from different intake years surveying their perception on factors decreasing their motivation. The results show that five factors affected the participants’ demotivation: non-communicative methods, facilities, test scores, course books, and teachers’ competence and teaching styles. From the five factors identified, non-communicative methods used by the lecturers, facilities, and test scores were the dominant factors lowering the students’ motivation. Lecturers’ competence and teaching styles provided the least influence on the students’ motivation. These findings indicate that teaching methods and strategies used by the lecturers and facilities hold a significant role in maintaining the students’ motivation in studying English.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Khofifah P. and Rusfandi. (2018). Indonesian University Students’ Demotivation in Learning English as a Foreign Language.In Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities - Volume 1: ANCOSH, ISBN 978-989-758-343-8, pages 508-514. DOI: 10.5220/0007423705080514

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ancosh18,
author={Puput Nur Khofifah and Rusfandi},
title={Indonesian University Students’ Demotivation in Learning English as a Foreign Language},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities - Volume 1: ANCOSH,},
year={2018},
pages={508-514},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007423705080514},
isbn={978-989-758-343-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities - Volume 1: ANCOSH,
TI - Indonesian University Students’ Demotivation in Learning English as a Foreign Language
SN - 978-989-758-343-8
AU - Khofifah P.
AU - Rusfandi.
PY - 2018
SP - 508
EP - 514
DO - 10.5220/0007423705080514