English is a second language taught from primary schools to secondary schools in Malaysian educational settings. Motivation is one of the important factors that determine the learners’ success in second language acquisition. Thus, the objective of the study was to investigate the types of motivation and the factors that affect the students’ motivation in English language learning among 55 secondary school students in Batu Pahat, Johor. The study used a mixed-method research design with a survey questions adapted from Clement, Dornyei and Noels (1994). There was also an interview session with one participant to elicit data on the instrumental or integrative motivation and the factors affecting the student’s motivation. Furthermore, the interview aims to analyse the challenges faced by the student in learning English. The findings indicated that students are more instrumentally motivated than integratively motivated in learning English. In addition, results showed that school factor is the main factor affecting the students’ motivation as compared to home factor whilst social media factor is another factor that has influenced the students’ motivation towards learning the second language. This research also highlights that grammar and vocabulary which are the major problems encountered by the student when learning the target language.