Embarking cross cultural understanding to improve students' motivation in learning english

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Fauzilah, Nur (2010) Embarking cross cultural understanding to improve students' motivation in learning english. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Teachers should know the improvement of their students. They have to support them to gain the lectures given as much as possible. One way to know the students improvement is through knowing their internal desire or motivation. Teaching without students' motivation, the result would be foolish. The result of measuring students' motivation, it can be seen whether the teaching learning are successful or not. Based on the explanation above, the researcher formulates three main problems to be answered in this study : (1) How is the motivation of second grade students of SMPN 2 Waru before they are taught cross-cultural understanding? (2) How is the motivation of second grade students of SMPN 2 Waru after they are taught cross-cultural understanding? (3) Does cross-cultural improves motivation of SMPN 2 Waru students? To obtained data were analyzed by Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The researcher finds out the computed T value of the students' motivation is 127. The T value of the table is 140 at 0.05 level. It means that the computed T value is the alternative hypothesis is accepted. It means that the variable has significant improvement. In conclusion, the second grade students of SMPN 2 Waru can be considered that they need something that can make them feel curious to arouse their motivation in learning English.