MOTIVATION IN LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Why Motivation plays a Significant Role? There are many factors that can determine the success of foreign language learning. Motivation is one of them. motivation can be said as an inner drive to achieve learning activity so the purpose of the subject learning can be maintained in an educational environment; motivation is one of the very important factors to encourage a learner to learn more rapidly and effectively. The motivation may come from the learners themselves that are the intrinsic, or outside of the learners, that is, the extrinsic. Those who have intrinsic motivation, they will have a strong responsibility to learn. On the contrary, for those who have extrinsic motivation, their enthusiasm to study depends on the conditions outside themselves. Whereas language aptitude concerns the cognitive abilities that underlie successful second language acquisition, motivation involves the attitudes and affective states that influence the degree of effort that learners make to lea...