motivation to learn english

In this era, many people are interested in English. People usually want to be able to speak and understand English but they don’t want to do anything. As an English student I’m worried about this problem. In Aceh, many students like English because they think English is pretty cool. But in the examination, many students have a bad score. In fact, no one could be able to speak English without any effort. Even native speaker also learned English when they were kid.

According to Horace Mann (1796-1859) “A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron”  It means that, inspiration is very important for studying English.

For this reason I want to teach pupil by giving them an inspiration before begin to study.  So, I am going to explain you about ‘how to inspire and motivate the student to learn English’ To what extent inspiration is effective in studying English?

If you inspire the student before you begin to teach the student, it will be more effective. This study is a field research. However I’m going to go and test my victim by myself. My victim is my young brother.  In this research I will test my younger brother to learn three different materials. The first materials are Bahasa Indonesia, English, and Math.

My young brother has joined some course which is consisted by math, English, and Bahasa Indonesia.
For the first, I gave him a pre test about those courses. The materials are 1st grade elementary school. My young brother is 5 years old, so the material is suitable to his age. After I gave the pre test the score that I got rather equal, 34 for math, 33 for Bahasa Indonesia, and 28 for English.

Since my research is about Learning English, so I decide to motivate him in this subject. The way I motivated him is by saying some of motivation words, for example: He is really loves playing game and he often asks me about the game, so then I motivate them by this word. “By studying English you can be easily to play game, because you know the guide how to play it.” The second motivation is  “If you can speak English in front of your teacher, they will be very proud of you.” The third because he really want to be a president, so I gave this words to him “English is very important for our life because someday if you want to be a president you must be able to speak English.”

The other way, I motivate him by giving some prize. Since he loves a toy, so I decided to give him a new toy if he success in English.  After one month, I decided to make a post test. I tested him about 3 main subjects that he has learned from his course. The test is consisting by Math, Bahasa Indonesia, and English. I gave him questions from first grade of elementary school. The difficulty level of this test is same with the pre test, but the questions are different.

After that, I assessed his answer and I got the very amazing score. He got 60 for math, 40 for Bahasa Indonesia, and 78 for English.  So based on this research, I assume that, the studying of English will be more effective if you give inspiration why we should learn English, and how important it is.