Abstrak
The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of ice breaking on students' learning motivation in English subjects of seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Tarakan. This research was categorized as a type of experimental research with a pre-experimental research design. The research population was all seventh-grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Tarakan, with the selected sample were students of class 7D by using purposive sampling method. Data collection techniques in this research consisted of pre-test and post-test using student motivation questionnaire and observation sheet. In this research, the collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 26, with a paired sample t-test used to compare the means of two measurements taken from the same group before and after ice breaking was applied. The results indicated that icebreaking was effective in increasing English learning motivation of seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Tarakan. The result of paired sample t-test showed that the mean difference between pre-test and post-test was - 2.03448, with a standard deviation of 2.35255. This difference was within the 95% confidence interval, the significance level (2-tailed) was 0.000, smaller than 0.05.