Nurul Islam Islamic Boarding School Seribandung places the kitab kuning as the main reference. The kitab kuning learning process can be seen from two aspects. First, kitab kuning learning material. Second, the kitab kuning learning method with the sorogan method or marak (approaching). The purpose of this study was to describe the kitab kuning learning model and the motivation of santri to learn kitab kuning at Islamic boarding schools. This study uses several approaches, namely the approach of intellectual social history, content analysis, and phenomenological approach as the main approach in this study. This study uses two types of data sources, namely primary data sources and secondary data sources. In the data analysis of this model there are three components of analysis, namely; data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing The findings in this study are the Islamic Nurul Islamic Islamic Boarding School which still teaches kitab kuning by KH. Anwar, for example; 1). Kitab at-Taqrir; 2). I’rabul Kalimat; 3). Mafhum al- Ajurumiyyah; 4). Mafhum ash-Sharf; 5). ‘Aqidah al-Ghulam; 6). ‘Aqaid al-Iman; 7). History of the Prophet Saw Volume 1. with the method of sorogan or marak, also applying the method of wetonan or bandongan and memorization. The learning method in Islamic Boarding Schools has 4 (four) clusters of learning models, namely: 1) information processing model; 2) social models, (3) personal models, and (4) behavioral system models, with student learning motivation influenced by internal factors, where students are indeed keen to enter this boarding school to study Islamic sciences, especially kitab kuning, and external factors, kitab kuning learning is arranged in the cottage curriculum, through a conducive environment in Islamic boarding schools accompanied by ustadz/ustadzah in learning it. This pattern is the main attraction in yellow book learning in Nurul Islam Islamic boarding school.