Student’s demotivation in learning English: the impact of conscientiousness/ Wan Amirrul Hasyim Wan Sukoran& Nor Farizul Hakim Mohamad

• Main Authors: Wan Sukoran, Wan Amirrul Hasyim, Mohamad, Nor Farizul Hakim
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); Research
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/84863/1/84863.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/84863/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

Many student in Malaysia fail to acquire English as Second Language since English is important language need to learn in any school. Research indicates that demotivation is a major cause of language learning failure in many school. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of conscientiousness on six demotivation factor in learning English among student of vocational school in Kuching. In addition, this research also to identify level of conscientiousness and most demotivation factor between that six factors. Questionnaire had been distributed to 278 students in both schools which were Kolej Vokasional Kuching and Kolej Vokasional Matang. The questionnaire consisted of demographic question, question about conscientiousness from BFI and Kekuchi’s (2011) Demotivation Questionnaire. The result of this study identify that Conscientiousness had impact on student demotivation factor in learning English. Moreover, most level of conscientiousness in this study was moderate then Class Characteristic and Experience of Failure become most demotivation factor among those six factor. Based on the result of current study, the future researcher need to investigate on others personality that impact students demotivating factors in learning English because of there are four personality that still unknown whether it can impact demotivation or not. At the same time, methods that use to collect the data need to change in order to get more information and better result.