The Influence of Students’ Motivation on the Development of Their English

Skills in Facing Online Learning

BACKGROUND OF STUDY
The Covid-19 pandemic has had an impact on a number of areas, including our
educational system. As a result of this situation, teachers have begun to transfer direct
classroom education to virtual instruction. Today, online learning is the newest and most
popular type of distant education 1. Due to the practicality of the scenario in this epidemic, it
is currently the most employed teaching method. Online learning focuses on internet-based
courses synchronous and asynchronous2. However, for English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
teacher, undertaking online learning for English might be a struggle.
This situation of living in pandemic becomes the most significant problem that should
be overcome for EFL teachers. It arose as a result of the shift in instructional methods from
face-to-face to online learning, which prompted English Teacher to deliver more exercises
instead of teaching the students.
Students, furthermore, were frequently late or even hesitant in collecting and
completing some assignments assigned by teachers, owing to the fact that the majority of
them did not understand what they were meant to complete the task and lacked knowledge of
the materials related to the assignment. If the professors keep asking the children to perform
the same thing over and over, the situation might become much worse3.
Further, with the poor enthusiasm of students and a must that should be done by them,
learning English and the monotonous technique of teaching such, keep asking them to
complete their assignments through online, will worsen the student’s motivation to learn,
there must be a new system of teaching learning that fits with the implementation of online
classroom itself. According to several researches, employing a virtual classroom with video
conferencing such as Google Meet, Zoom, and etc can encourage students to learn English.
When utilized in an online class, PowerPoint presentations are clearly helpful in increasing
students' enthusiasm to learn English4. The findings revealed that a teacher's power point
presentation might stimulate pupils to study, maintain their attention, and engage their
involvement and attentiveness.
(GAP) These terms of both developing student’s English skills and online learning for
students have been many times discussed in the previous papers and by other writers.
Meanwhile, this paper writer is in the aim of clarifying some aspects existing in the
implementation of teaching learning where it is rare considered and assumed as one of
important things in the implementation of teaching learning itself “Student’s Motivation”.
Whereas, the existence of motivation by learners becomes the first fundamental excuses for
the students to keep studying the subject they learn, because, with the non-existence of
1
Joshua Stern, Ph.D., Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning, page 1, 2019.
2
Lin, X.,&Gao, L., Students’ sense of community and perspectives of taking synchronous and
asynchronous online courses, Asian Journal of Distance Education, Vol. 15,page 171, 2020.
3
LathipatudDurriyah, T., &Zuhdi, M., Digital Literacy With EFL Student Teachers: Exploring Indonesian
Student Teachers’ Initial Perception About Integrating Digital Technologies Into a Teaching Unit,
International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, Vol. 6, page 53, 2018.
4
Miftah, The Use of Power Point Presentation to Improve Students’ Motivation in Learning English, English
Language Journal, Vol. 3, page 5–12, 2018.
motivation, it will be absolute that the students are not even touching the part of subject you
want to teach, including English.
(NOVELTY) Thus, teachers and instructors must also put their attention on the
students’ learning motivation whether they are still eager to learn or not, because it will form
nonsense thing to do, if even teachers teach the students seriously without the motivation of
students to learn, and etc. In this paper, the mindset of teacher on the essential position of
student’s learning motivation is replaced as an crucial thing to discuss, moreover, the
condition created by COVID-19 just worsen all teacher efforts in teaching, and supposing
them to use the virtual instruction for teaching. Virtual spaces used for teaching might not be
considered bad at all, but its implementation doesn’t always mean it bring the advantages and
it ensures that the students will be taught well.
(Statement linking to the objective) In hope, even the teaching and learning process,
nowadays, is implemented through the online instruction; the right motivation built for the
students would mean everything, that in the end, it will be the reasons of the students get the
development on their process of learning English even in the worst condition, caused by their
strong learning motivation, while, it will be able to provide the significant influence for the
development of their English during pandemic.

Research Question
1. Is there any significant influence of students’ motivation on the development of their
English skills in facing online learning?
Research Objective
1. To investigate whether or not the significant influence of students’ motivation on the
development of their English skills in facing online learning is.