CHANGING YOUR HABITS IS EFFECTIVE TO IMPROVE YOUR MOTIVATION FOR ENGLISH

All non English speaking students in all over the world learn how to speak English well. The problem is; most of them do not know what their motivations exactly are. As the result, they get lost and gain their goal slowly, and even worst they got nothing. There are varieties causes of these problems. The less qualified teachers, lack of books and study materials, less supported environment, less self-confidence, and unsupported friends are probably cause this problem. However, students’ selves confidences is the most influential thing that need to be increased. The rest of this essay will describe you some good habits as suggested strategies which effective to improve motivation for English.
First, imagine you can talk to native speakers just as you talk in Indonesian. You know that all people around you, especially your schoolmates, wanted to have good English. Therefore, I expect you to talk to them in English like the way you talk in your first language. You also need to believe in your ability and realize that you have already well in English. You have already learnt English since you were in Elementary School that means you have already known English. All that you need to do is pushing your self to use it as often as possible. More you use English, more your skills improve. Besides increase yours, using English more often also helps to improve your schoolmate English too. In short, you should try to speak in English as often as possible.

The next strategy that you should do is talk to people about English. This is a very simple method, but it is very effective. Here is how it works: You usually talk about things that interest you. The opposite is true, too. If you start talking about a boring subject, you will begin to get interested in it. Imagine you are studying a subject that you hate. You are bored and tired, but you have to pass the test tomorrow. If there are people near you, you have two options: you can tell everybody how much you are suffering or you can tell those people about the things you have learned. If you choose the first option, you will only feel worse. If you choose the second option, and start a conversation on the "boring" subject, you will begin to look at it in a very different way. Suddenly it will become a subject worth talking about — therefore, an interesting subject. As the result, you will begin to like it and learn about it faster and faster.
The third one is try to find friends who also have hard willing to learn English. If you can find a friend who is learning English and is on a similar level of skill, you will be in an excellent situation: you will have someone to talk about English with. These conversations will increase your interest in English. Learning English will be easier, because you will be able to discuss your problems with your friend. You will study English more, because you will want to be better than your friend is. You should meet your friend regularly. Ideally, he/she should live near you, or go to the same school as you. If you absolutely cannot find anybody willing to learn English with you, you can try to find somebody by e-mail. This is a worse solution: your conversations will probably be less frequent, and it is difficult to compete with someone who you do not know well. However, making more friends can help you much to increase your willing to learn English.
Next, you need to spend some money for English. If you spend your money on something, you will want to use it. For example, if you buy an expensive football shoes, you will probably go out and play football every day. This rule is also true for learning English. If you want to increase your desire to learn English, buy a new dictionary, an interesting English-language book, English-language magazines, English-language novels, etc. The idea is simple: You paid for it, so you will want to use it, and you will improve your English. There is a problem with this method. It only works for a short time. You usually lose your desire to learn English after a few days. To keep learning, you would have to buy something every week. However, this method is helpful, because it gives you an impulse to start learning. For example, if you buy a dictionary of phrasal verbs, you will probably learn some words from it. Then you should try to use them. For example, write an e-mail message with these words. This will increase your motivation, and you will learn more.
The last important thing is you have to remember that learning English requires action. We have heard this many times. One small action is more powerful than reading hundreds of articles. We know it is very hard to do things, even if they are good for us. We humans are lazy creatures. That is why not many people speak English well. Still, we hope you can do the things above in your English learning method — not only read about them. You will be successful only if you change something about your life.