JOURNEY : Journal of English Language and Pedagogy
Vol 2 No 1 (2019): Journey: Journal of English Language and Pedagogy

STUDENTS’ MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS IN WRITING ESSAY

Hernina Dewi Lestari (IKIP Budi Utomo Malang)



Article Info

Publish Date
27 Feb 2019

Abstract

This study aims at discovering the possible motivational factors affecting English Department students in writing essay. Employing descriptive qualitative mode of research, the researcher tried to figure out the concerning factors especially the motivational areas which possibly became the major support and/or hindrance for the students to write essay. To meticulously note down the result, the researcher made use of unstructured interview as the method of collecting the data. The result found teacher’s overall performance, peers’ performance, parent’s involvement, and classroom ambience as the dominant motivational factors affecting students’ performance in writing essay. Future researchers are suggested to study the more specific areas of motivational factors affecting students in writing essay to get better and deeper understanding.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

journey

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journey is a journal developed by English Education Department of IKIP Budi Utomo focusing on receiving the creative and intelectual products of lecturers, researchers, and practitioners on the field of English Language Teaching, Linguistics, and Literature. It is epected that this journal will be ...