The aims of this research were to investigate the students’ motivation in learning EFL through zoom cloud meeting platform and the influence of zoom cloud meeting platform towards the existing students’ motivation in learning EFL. This research was adopted a descriptive qualitative research design. Two instruments were employed by the researcher to gather the data, namely self-report questionnaire and semi-structured interview with open-ended question. The informants were the students of higher education in south Sulawesi, Indonesia. The data were analyzed by transcribing, coding, reducing, translating into English and analyzing the data based on the points of research questions. The results of this research are as follow: Students’ motivation in learning EFL through zoom cloud meeting platform is the range of moderately until highly motivated. It is suggested to the students that learning English through zoom cloud meeting to keep arousing their motivation whatever the condition is and also the teachers should pay attention with the necessary of the students and improve the effective or suitable method in teaching EFL through this application. The influence of employing zoom cloud meeting platform towards the existing students’ motivation are balanced because among 12 informants, six informants feel that zoom cloud meeting platform doesn’t influence their existing motivation in learning EFL with various reason such as the error of network and the difficulty to comprehend the materials in the process of learning by using zoom cloud meeting. Besides, six informants also stated that it influences their motivation with many kinds of reason such as the materials are difficult to comprehend because the interaction is limited, some technical disruptions occur in the learning process. Whatever the learning condition, the students should not be influenced their motivation in learning EFL to achieve their goals.
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