An Analysis Of Students’ Motivation In Speaking During Covid-19 Pandemic At The First Year Students Of English Language Education UIR

Covid-19 is Coronavirus disease 2019. The Covid-19 that the first case report from Wuhan City, China, on August 2019. Then, the first case reported in Indonesia on March 2, 2020. Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the government to issue social distancing rules, To avoid the transmission and spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the government made a decision to study from home, face-to-face learning was changed to online learning. Currently, UIR students in 2020 have also undergone lectures with an online system in accordance with the regulations that have been applied. Since the online system lectures have been experienced by English Language Education at the Islamic University of Riau, especially first year students. Those who start lectures with an online system that can affect their learning motivation. Their motivation can be lower than the previous class which started lectures with a face-to-face system.The purpose of this study was to determine the level of student motivation in learning to speak at UIR's English education during the covid-19 pandemic. The theory applied in this research is Herzberg (1997). This theory is divided into 2 factor models; (1) intrinsic model and (2) extrinsic model. The research design of this research is qualitative research. This study uses a questionnaire to analyze the motivation of first graders in speaking during the covid-19 pandemic. In this study, it was found that the level of motivation on the intrinsic element was mostly High in the 9th question, which stated that you can speak English. important for the future. Then for extrinsic elements was mostly Moderate and also have the highest level of motivation in question number 8, this is because the questions with the highest level of motivation are questions that state students are active