A Survey Of Self-Regulated Motivation In Speaking English Among Indonesian University Students

Abstract

Since English is now widely use in communication, speaking has become mandatory skill to improve. There are many challenges when learning a foreign language. Self-regulated learning is one of the strategy, and for SRL to work ffectively, one must have a self-regulated motivation (SRM). There are not many SRM study in EFL background, especially in speaking context. A study onducted by Uztosun (2017) created a scale to measure Self-Regulated Motivation in Speaking (SRMIS) for EFL learners. The purpose of the current study is to pinpoint the variables that have the greatest impact on Indonesian ollege students' SRMIS. To determine which factor influences students' SRMIS the most, the study used a survey approach with 130 participants and a questionnaire with 22 items on a 5-Likert scale to assess the four Uztosun factors of SRMIS: task value activation, regulation of affect, regulation of peers, and regulation of learning environment. The participants were English Language Education Department majors from the 2018 cohort at a private university in Indonesia. According to the descriptive analysis, the two most important factors are task value activation (4,17) and regulation of affect (3,85). The lowest scores are for regulation of peers (3,48) and regulation of learning environment (3,36). The results also show that individuals can inspire themselves to speak English more fluently and that they speak the language out of their own interest.