Students’ Internal Factors In Learning Writing

Abstract

Students’ internal factors is the factors that come from inside the learners themselves. This research aimed to find out the internal factors students in learning writing English at English Education Study Program Batch 2018. This research used descriptive quantitative research method to analyze the internal factors of students. The subject of this study were 23 students. The instrument for this research was questionnaire. The instrument divided into two parts. The first part is close-ended questions and the second part is open-ended questions. The close-ended questions used Likert-scale format and the open-ended questions were in the form of essays. The results indicated that based on the data on the motivation aspect mostly choose scale sometimes with a score of 67 (58.26%) followed by interest aspect and the highest score is scale sometimes too by 60 (52.17%). And the last is the intelligence aspect and choose scale sometimes with the score 71 (61.73%). In conclusion, the internal factors that can students in learning writing English at English Language Education Study Program Lambung Mangkurat University Batch 2018 is the intelligence aspect with the highest score from all factors. And based on the score interpretation criteria 61 – 80% is classified as the strong level as the result of data. Furthermore, the intelligence of each students can define their writing English.