Students of arabic language education are required to master all arabic language skills. One of the them is arabic speaking skills. Students of arabic language education must be able to speak arabic well. One of the factors that can make students being able to speak arabic well is motivation. The research aims to determine the motivation of students of arabic language education to speak Arabic. This research is quantitative research by using survey methods through questionnaire distribution. The questionnaire was distributed to 40 students of arabic language education 2016. Analysic of the data used is descriptive statistical analysic (frequency, average, percentage, and standart deviation) which is assisted by the 20 SPSS program. Motivation of students arabic language education is measured by the average amount obtained. The result showed that students of arabic language education have high motivation to speak Arabic. This can be seen from the overall average obtained 3,1. While interms of indicators of motivation, than the highest motivation indicator that motivates students to speak Arabic is an indicator of interesting activities in learning with an average value of 3.42 having a high interpretation. While the lowest indicator that motivates student to speak Arabic is an indicator of appreciation in learning with an average value of 2,4 having moderate interpretation.