INVESTIGATING ESL STUDENTS‟ ATTITUDE AND MOTIVATION TOWARD ENGLISH LEARNING: THE CASE OF NATIONAL SCHOOLS IN BALI

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating 1) the type of motivation the students have in learning English as a second language and 2) the students‟ attitude towards the English learning and the teacher. A questionnaire which was adapted from Attitude Motivation test Battery (AMTB) designed by R.C. Gardner was used to collect the data. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the questionnaire was designed using Google Form and then sent to the subjects of this study through online applications. The subjects of the study were 300 high school students who are majoring in Social, Science and Language study. The data were analyzed by means of frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean and standard deviation. The result shows that most students are slightly more integratively motivated to learn English as a second language. It is proven by the integrative motivation has mean score of 4.14 and standard deviation of 3.67 which are categorized as „high‟.  Another result also shows that the students have positive attitude towards the English learning and the teacher. It has mean score of 3.91 and standard deviation of 3.47 which are categorized as „moderate‟.