ANALYZING OF MOTIVATION IN LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE FACED BY NURSING STUDENTS

ANALYZING OF MOTIVATION IN LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE FACED BY NURSING STUDENTS

Learning Foreign Language

Introduction: Health Education of nursing has a remarkable growth in the number of graduates produced. This is also supported Indonesia has a lot of nursing power resources to supply the world's demand. Foreign languages courses are elective courses which are provided each of Higher Education that aims to compete abroad. Motivation students have a strong influence in the decision of the elective courses. Method:This study used qualitative design by three respondents with in-dept interview with structured questions. To validate the data, the researcher used data triangulation by lecturers and friends. Result and discussion:The respondents motivated in learning foreign language to improve the ability of speaking other language, they motivated to able speaking with people in other countries in order to avoid miss understanding. They believed that it can increase the quality of students to continue their study or to work abroad in order to get high levels of life. Recommendation: The foreign language should be recommended include into the nursing curriculum, so that the students were high motivated in learning foreign language not only English but also Japanese and Arabic should be more meeting in the curriculum.
Keywords: foreign language, motivation, nursing education and learning

Pepin Nahariani, I’in Noviana, Shanti Rosmaharani

STIKES Pemkab Jombang

2017