Environment and the Students’ Motivation in Studying Indonesian as a Foreign Language at GoBali Program, the University of Udayana-Bali

Abstract

This study focuses on analysing the students’motivation for studying Indonesian as a foreign language at GoBali, a one-semester international study program at the University of Udayana, particularly investigating the students’motivation during the course and analysing how the environment influences their learning motivation. This study involved 76 foreign students and 4 instructors in four Indonesian Language classrooms at the program and the data were collected through survey technique, classroom observation and interview. The results show that the students’ motivation in learning Bahasa Indonesia is varied and in general is relatively low. However, the environment where they study the language has actually given an advantage for the learning in which the students become more motivated to learn the language for their daily lives in Bali, apart from whether it will give further benefits for their future or not.

Keywords

• motivation
• foreign students
• indonesian
• teaching
• learning