THE MOTIVATION OF THE ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT STUDENTS IN DOING THE TASK IN ONLINE LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

Motivation plays an important role in determining the success of students' learning, so it takes the attention and effort of teachers to encourage students' enthusiasm for learning. While everything related to education during COVID-19 is done by online the tasks such presentation, quiz, assignment, and discussion forum are also done by online. These activities are the main instruments that can be found in online learning. Most of the students of English education department are already aware of these kind of activities, as previously blended learning has been used in private islamic university of Yogyakarta years ago before the COVID-19 pandemic happened and transformed the learning system that was initially known as blended learning to fully online learning.
In doing the activities given in the online learning, students normally experience different kind of motivations. This study aimed at investigating the students of the English education department motivation level and what intrinsic and extrinsic factors that motivate the students more in doing the task given in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using descriptive quantitative as the research design, the study collected the data needed from total 165 participants of English language education department students batch 2018 of a private Islamic university in Yogyakarta.
The findings revealed that the students' learning motivation in English learning education department batch 2018 level is absolutely good and also the findings revelaed that the need of achievement is dominating the intrinsic factors that motivate the students in doing the task given in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, while in exteristic factor is dominated by the authority expectation family and lecturer.