The Use Of Authentic Materials To Motivate Students In Learning English

Abstract

Increasing students’ motivation in learning is one of the challenge that has been regularly faced by EFL language teachers and it is one of the learners’ needs that should be put into consideration in order to have a meaningful education. It is compulsory for teachers to build, adopt, or adapt materials that is suitable for the learners. Another challenge is bringing a ‘real-life’ context inside the EFL classroom and this is where authentic materials comes in handy. Authentic materials is believed and proved by many researchers to be useful in exposing real language to learners and helps to build motivation in learning (Peacock, 1997; Gilmore, 2007; Oguz & Bahar, 2008; Maroko, 2010; Sample, 2015). For this reason, this study aim to describe the implementation of Authentic Materials to improve students’ motivation in learning English. The data were conducted during the pre-service teaching period in one of the private senior high schools in Yogyakarta. As the result, authentic materials that are carefully selected and appropriately implemented by considering the students’ level and interest naturally increases their engagement and motivation in learning.