Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab di Indonesia: Penelitian Terhadap Motivasi Belajar Bahasa Asing

Abstrak

Islam is not only adhered to by people who can speak Arabic, but Arabic is believed to be important for studying Islam. Among the countries that do not speak Arabic, Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world. In line with this phenomenon, many Indonesian Muslims study Arabic in schools, Islamic boarding schools and universities. Learning Arabic presents opportunities and challenges, such as the increasing diversity of languages ​​in Indonesia and it is the duty of educational institutions to design Arabic language learning according to the interests and aspirations of Arabic learners and provide facilities to help sustainable learning progress. To achieve these learning objectives, it is necessary to know the motivation of students to learn Arabic and the level of language they want, so that they can set independent strategies to improve their learning. This article reports a study on the motivation of students studying Arabic at an Arabic language course institute in Kediri, East Java, Indonesia. The findings of the study reveal that students studying Arabic at an Arabic language course institute in Kediri, East Java have different motivations for learning Arabic. This study provides important information about the motivation of Indonesian students to learn foreign languages.