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Gender differences on english students' motivation toward english learning
This study focuses on investigating and comparing between two genders are male and female English students on their intrinsic, extrinsic motivation, and its types toward English learning. There are three types of intrinsic motivation; knowledge, stimulation, and accomplishment and also three sub scales of extrinsic motivation; external, introjected, and identified. Intrinsic and extrinsic are categories of motivation based on Self-Determination Theory (SDT). There are 74 participants, those are from English department students at STAIN Kediri in the academic year 2016-2017. The population of this study is English department students in sixth and eighth semester. They were already studying English more than 2 years for their college level and have enough knowledge and experience in English learning. This is a survey research and the participants were given Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) questionnaire with 24 items to examine their motivation. In term of intrinsic motivation, the result of comparation between two genders on the intrinsic motivation and its types. The result showed that females have higher score than male for their intrinsic motivation. Besides, the result indicated that there is a significance difference between male and female on their whole intrinsic motivation, accomplishment, and stimulation intrinsic motivation with t value showed -2,290 for intrinsic motivation, -1,998 for accomplishment and -2,040 for stimulation. But, there is no significance for one of types intrinsic motivation which is knowledge with t value -1,016. Those results are comparated with t table 1,993. Both of genders also indicated in the high level of intrinsic motivation. Then, for extrinsic motivation showed there is no significance difference between male and female. But, the total score of extrinsic motivation presented that males have total score higher than females. Surprisingly, one of types extrinsic motivation; identified regulation has the same score between both of genders. Additionally, both of female and male indicated in the high level of extrinsic motivation.
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