Open AccessStudents’ Motivation to Acquire English through Virtual Learning Midst Covid-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Eisha Jamila Qomariyah Ikhwan,
Erna Andriyanti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lingua cultura/lingua cultura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2460-710X
pISSN - 1978-8118
DOI - 10.21512/lc.v15i1.6839
Subject(s) - psychology , motivation to learn , pearson product moment correlation coefficient , descriptive statistics , situational ethics , pandemic , correlation , covid-19 , positive correlation , mathematics education , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , medicine , disease , geometry , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This research aimed to find out students’ motivation to acquire English as a foreign language through virtual learning midst Covid-19 pandemic. It involved 202 students spread throughout Indonesia. Data were collected by means of motivation questionnaires adopted from the Situational Motivation Scale (SIMS) of students’ motivation, i.e., instrumental motivation and integral motivation. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and Pearson’s Correlation on SPSS 22. The result shows that the students have a low level of motivation both for integrative and instrumental motivation to acquire English. The statistical calculation reveals that there is a correlation between the students’ motivation and virtual learning activity as shown by the level of significance 0,000 0,05. The research implies a need for a more innovative instructional design for virtual language learning to better improve students’ motivation to learn English during the Covid-19 pandemic.