ABSTRACT
Motivation is the individual’s internal psychological activity process that triggers and maintains individual activities, and directs eorts towards a goal. There is another definition of motivation that state as internal motive which govern people’s action to achieve the purpose. Motivation can be divided into surface motivation and deep motivation. Surface motivation has a direction correlation to the future of the individual and motive is driven from the external; Deep motivation is generally not related to learners’ future and economic interests, with learning motive coming from interest in learning knowledge or culture itself. Motivation has the following three functions: (1) the activation function, namely, motivation can make people act; (2) the directional function, that is, with the function of motivation, individual’s action is directed to an aim; (3) the intensifying functions, namely after the activities, motivation can maintain and adjust activities.
