The Impact of TOEFL Course on Students’ Motivation (An Analysis at IAIN Parepare)

Armil, Siti Israyani (2023) The Impact of TOEFL Course on Students’ Motivation (An Analysis at IAIN Parepare). Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Parepare.

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Abstract

TOEFL is very crucial since how useful is it. A TOEFL course named GESIT (Gemar Intensif TOEFL) that has been conducted in this research is a course initiated to help students to get high score on the test. The aim of this research is to find out the kind of motivation that appear after the students took a TOEFL course in IAIN Parepare. It focused to find out students’ motivaton related to aspect of Gardner’s and Maslow’s theory of motivaton. Those are integrative motivation, instrumental motivation, self-esteem and self-actualization. This research used a descriptive research design with qualitative method. The subject of this research were the students of IAIN Parepare which have been joined the TOEFL course held by UPT Bahasa. Interview is used as data collection technique. The interview result is analyzed by following the step of data analysis technique by Miles and Huberman. The result of this research indicates that there are a lot of kind motivation appeared after the students joined the course. Those motivations consist of integrative and instrumental motivations such as desire to interact to English community, native speakers, go abroad, and desire to got some practical advantages such as got scholarship and continue study. Another points that have been explained in this research are students’ motivation about their self-esteem and self-actualization. The result showed that there are motivation to achieve accomplishments, crave for competence in English and accept recognition, validation and appreciation from other people. Not only that, there are tendencies of some students to actualize themselves. Their motivations are about desire to have new challenging experiences, concern with their personal growth and actualize their potential without thinking too much about other people’s opinion.

Item Type:	Thesis (Undergraduate)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Impact, TOEFL Course, Students’ Motivation
Subjects:	13 EDUCATION > 1301 Education Systems > 130199 Education systems not elsewhere classified
Divisions:	Fakultas Tarbiyah > Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	Users 2757 not found.
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2024 04:30
Last Modified:	08 Oct 2024 04:30
URI:	https://repository.iainpare.ac.id/id/eprint/7615

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