The Factors Analysis of Indonesian Students’ Motivation for Being the Members of Bilingual Class at Economics Education Department

Abstract

The need for qualified education personnel was getting more challenging, thus; the Economics Education Department should improve the quality of education to align the globalization era. Graduates who were qualified and competitive in both national and international sciences could be achieved through the good quality of teaching and learning process. An effort of the Economics Education Department to meet the needs of the world of work one of them was through the opening of the bilingual class program. It was a program which opened the valuable opportunity for students to develop their ability to understand lectures in two languages. However; the reality was the opposite, the appeal of students to follow the selection of bilingual class recruitment was still low. Motivation factor was suspected to be the reason of students’ decisions whether join or did not join the bilingual class. Therefore; the purpose of the study was to analyze the factors that influence students entering the bilingual class. The data were collected by documentation, interviews and questionnaires. Then, they were analyzed by Structural Equation Model (SEM). The result of the research showed that internal factors gave the positive and significant influence for 53.1% on students’ motivation to enter the bilingual class. Then, the external factors gave the positive and significant influence on the motivation of entering the bilingual class for 25.1%.

Keywords: Internal Factors, External Factors, Motivation to be Bilingual Class Members