THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARD THEIR ENGLISH TEACHER ON STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN LEARNING ENGLISH

Abstract

There are many factors that can determine the success of foreign language learning. Some of them are attitudes and motivation. The objectives of this study are 1) to describe students’ attitude towards their English teacher, 2) to describe students’ motivation in learning English 3) to find out whether or not there is any positive and significant influence between students’ attitude towards their English teacher and students’ motivation in learning English .This study is quantitative. Simple random sampling is used to choose 60 students as the sample of this study. Meanwhile, questionnaire is chosen as instrument for collecting data. Students’ attitudes toward their English teacher and students’ motivation in learning English are described by descriptive analysis and the influence is analyzed by simple regression analysis. From the descriptive analysis, it is found that students’ attitudes toward their English teacher is fair with the greatest precentage 45% and students’ motivation in learning English is fair with the greatest precentage 55%.  Futhermore, from the simple regression analysis, it is found that the coefficient of students’ attitudes toward their English teacher (independent variable) is positive and the significant value of independent variable is less than 0.05 which means that there is significant influence of students’ attitudes toward their English teacher on students’ motivation in learning English. Therefore, based on the result of analysis, it is concluded that students’ attitudes toward their English teacher has positive and significant influence on students’ motivation in learning English.

Key words: attitudes toward English teacher, motivation in learning English