The Causal Factors of Students’ Integrative and Instrumental Motivational Orientation in Learning English at Islamic High School in Takalar Regency

ABSTRACT: This study aims to find out the factors that cause students to differ in terms of motivational orientation in Learning English. This research method is a quantitative descriptive method, and a closed and open-ended questionnaire is used to collect the data. This research indicates that several factors cause differences in motivational orientation between males and females, such as gender roles, teaching methods, communicative competence, types of motivation, and the Islamic school system. The differences in motivational orientation possessed by male and female students, males achieve a high level of instrumental motivational orientation with a total percentage of 72.50% while females have 67.50%. Besides, females have a high integrative level with 92.50%, and males reached 80%. It can be concluding that males and females have different motivational orientations.

Keywords -Gender, Motivational Orientation, Integrative, Instrumental.