AN ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIVATION OF SANTRI AT PONDOK PESANTREN ASKHABUL KAHFI GUNUNGPATI IN LEARNING ENGLISH
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- This research focuses on the motivation of the santris of Pondok Pesantren Askhabul Kahfi Gunungpati in learning English. The writer was interested to do the research because most people only know that pesantren only teach their students with Arabic. In fact, the pesantren also teaches English. This research used quantitative research intended to find out the degrees of motivations that santris have to learn English and also to figure out the dominant factors that motivate santris to learn English . This research emphasizes two kinds of motivations that the santris of Pondok Pesantren Askhabul Kahfi Gunungpati have. They are the integrative and instrumental motivation. The writer obtained the data from the questionnaire given to 42 respondents at Pondok Pesantren Askhabul Kahfi Gunungpati who take English class as their extracurricular. It was found that the santris have a higher degree of integrative and moderate degree of instrumental motivation. They had more interest to learn English because they wanted to be a part of the cultural societies rather than to get the financial gain in time. There are also some factors which are believed to motivate the santris in learning English, they are the classroom situations, the teachers‟ way of teaching, the characteristics of teachers, and also the material difficulty. The result of the research showed that the santris were motivated because of the understandable teachers‟ way of teaching and also the characteristic of the teachers which is supportive to the students.