Motivating Students to Write Descriptive Text Using Google Site Media at SMAN 1 Palopo
Abstract
This study aims to describe how is the students’ motivation toward the use of Google Site in learning descriptive text. This study is a qualitative descriptive that is focused on two research questions namely How is the students’ motivation to use Google Site in writing? And which type of motivation is more dominant, intrinsic or extrinsic one. There are 10 participants of this study that is chosen by purposive sampling technique. The data is collected by using questionnaire and interview. The collected data is described qualitatively. The result of this study found that the use of Google Site can motivate students to write descriptive text and the dominant motivation in this study is extrinsic one, where this motivation that comes out from outside that influence our mind to accept or choose by a number of external factors such as attitude of society, peers, family and teacher.
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