STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN WRITING CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS STUDY

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out whether the students’ motivation in writing descriptive text. This was quantitative research. The population of this study was the eighth grade students at SMP N 17 Bintan, and the sample of the research was 28 students. The instruments of this research was questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by Likert scale rating. The result showed that students’ motivation was 61.71. Therefore, it can be concluded that there was students’ motivation in writing descriptive text is high level.