Demotivation and Learning Style : A Case Study in SMP Negeri 189 Jakarta

Abstract

Demotivation has been a popular topic in recent years. Especially in this era of post-pandemic education where education switched and transformed from traditional to digital. Demotivation is defined as the loss of interest of students in learning. Demotivation harms students’ learning, therefore it should be identified early. After the pandemic, there seems to be a decrease in students’ motivation. Studies have particularly focused only on demotivation without an in-depth investigation of students’ learning styles. Learning style is also one of the essential factors in determining students’ success in learning. If the learning does not cover students’ preferred learning style, this will result in not optimal. This study aims to find out the main demotivating factors in eighth-grade students at SMPN 189 Jakarta as well as the preferred learning style of students. This study used a qualitative descriptive method. The participants of this study are eighth-grade students at SMPN 189 Jakarta, consisting of seventy students from seven classes available. This study finds that teacher-related factors are the main demotivating factors of students in the eighth grade, the next place is student-related factors, and the last is classroom-related factors. This study also finds that the learning style preferred by students is the visual learning style, the next place is reading/writing learners, followed by kinesthetic learning style. The last was the aural learning style.