ECONOMICS STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION, ATTITUDE AND MOTIVATION TOWARD LEARNING ENGLISH LANGUAGE

This study aimed (1) To describe the perception, attitude and motivation of
Economics students in learning English. (2) To describe level of perception, the
level of attitude and level of motivation of Economics students in learning
English.(3) To reason why the Economics students realize such perception,
attitude and motivation in learning English as the ways they are. This qualitative
study was conducted at the first year of Economics students. The sources of data
of this study were 58 students from two classes. The data were collected by share
questionnaire and interviews then were analyzed using Interactive Models. The
result showed that: (1) the students perceive the important of English for his/her
study and future work and students offer the general abstract statement of the
important of English. They have positive attitude and negative attitudes and
integrative instrumental, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; (2) level of perception
of Economics students were 485 highly positive, 33% positive and 19 % negative,
then the level of attitude in the level of receiving (78%), valuing (64%),
internalizing values (63%), responding (50%) and organizing (43%). The level of
motivation was high. (3)some reason of students realized their perception were
work, study, promote economy syariah language policy and lack of skill. For
reason of students realized their attitudes were economical factor, ethnicity,
language policy, occupation and listen the music, three reasons of students
realized their motivation were the physical condition of class, lecturer and method
of teaching.