The correlation between extrinsic motivation and english achievement at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Padangsidimpuan

Yanti, Ade (2017) The correlation between extrinsic motivation and english achievement at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused on the correlation between Extrinsic motivation and English achievement at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Padangsidimpuan. The students problems in this research were : 1) English is very strange language for students, 2) Students can’t understand what the teacher said when using English, 3) Students are afraid to speak in English class, 4) Students have a lack vocabulary and grammar mastery. The purpose of this research was to know of how significant the correlation between extrinsic motivation and English achievement at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Padangsidimpuan. The kinds of this research was quantitative research with correlational method. 76 students were gotten by Slovin formula and chosen randomly from 12 classes as the sample. They were 7 students from VIII 1, 9 students from VIII 2, 4 students from VIII 3, 9 students from VIII 4, 8 students from VIII 5, 5 students from VIII 6, 5 students from VIII 7, 2 students from VIII 8, 9 students from VIII 9, 4 students from VIII 10, 11 students from VIII 1 and 3 students from VIII 12. To analyze the data, the researcher used Product Moment formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of variable X was 96.57 and mean score of Variable Y was 87.2. besides, the score of rxy was higher than rtable ( 0.357 > 0.200 ). The result showed that there was correlation between two variables but in low category. It means the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was a correlation between extrinsic motivation and English achievement at the eighth grade students of SMP N 2 Padangsidimpuan in low category.

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