Students‘ Motives in Choosing English Educatio Program at State Islamic University Sulthan Thaha Saifuddin Jambi

This study aims to determine the motives of students in choosing
English Education Study Program at State Islamic University (UIN)
Raden Fatah Palembang in 2022. The research method in this study is
quantitative with a survey design, the data collection method used is a
questionnaire. The subjects of this study were 76 new students of batch
2022. This study analyzed three categories of motives, namely: Altruistic
motives, intrinsic motives and extrinsic motives. on altruistic motives get
an average value with 74% choosing an agreeing response, and 67% for
intrinsic motives, but in contrast to extrinsic which get enough responses
with an average value of 51%, this shows that the most popular motive for
each statement is altruistic motives. In this finding, it is precisely in
statement 20 that the intrinsic motive gets the highest average score
(66.6%) "I have a desire to pass on knowledge to others". This motive is
the most prominent or most popular motive in choosing an English
education program.