Motivation is combination of desire and effort made to achieve a goal. Motivation is one of the influential factors in learning. The success of learning depends on high or low motivation of students. Motivation can drive the learners in reaching learning goal. By having motivation students will be enthusiastic in teaching learning process so they will be pushed to study English well. When the students are lack of motivation in learning English, they feel not enjoy studying so they will show poor attitude when teaching and learning process. As the result they will not achieve their study well.
The formulation of the research problems were: 1) How is the students’ intrinsic motivation in learning English in the seventh grade of MTs Taqwiyatul Wathon Mranggen? 2) How is the students’ extrinsic motivation in learning English in the seventh grade of MTs Taqwiyatul Wathon Mranggen?. The purpose of this research were to: 1) To identify about students’ intrinsic motivation in learning English in the seventh grade of MTs Taqwiyatul Wathon Mranggen, 2) To identify about students’ extrinsic motivation in learning English in the seventh grade of MTs Taqwiyatul Wathon Mranggen, 3) To identify factors influent students’ motivation.
Research method: 1) The research design in this research was survey research with quantitative approach, 2) The population of this research was all students in the seventh grade of MTs Taqwiyatul Wathon Mranggen, there are VIIa,VIIb, VIIc and VIId class 3) The sample was each class taken 10 students from seventh grade and the total samples are 40 students, 4) The research instrument was questionnaire, 5) The data analysis was using frequency distribution and formula of percentage.
The result of this research showed from the students’ answer in the questionnaire. There are 40 questions in the questionnaire. Question number one until number twenty are questions about intrinsic motivation and question number twenty one until number forty are questions for extrinsic motivation. From the calculation showed that the score of the students’ intrinsic motivation is 52% and the students’ extrinsic motivation is 48%. It is mean that the student in MTs Taqwiyatul Wathon Mranggen have higher intrinsic motivation than extrinsic motivation. Students motivated by the enjoyment of the learning process itself or by their internal desire than motivated by external source. They want to learn English because they feel that English is interesting and they want to master it. They believe that by mastering English they can conquer the world and they also get the information from other countries