The correlation between intrinsic motivation and students’ writing descriptive ability at Fifth Semester of English Students’ IAIN Padangsidimpuan

Rambe, Siti Arifah (2020) The correlation between intrinsic motivation and students’ writing descriptive ability at Fifth Semester of English Students’ IAIN Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussedabout The Correlation Between Intrinsic Motivation and Students’ Writing Descriptive Ability To The Fifth Semester Of English Students’ IAIN Padangsidimpuan.. The problems of this research were students were lack of mastering grammar that make students often to make mistake in the structure of the sentence, students are lack of vocabularies and lack interest to write, therefore, students might have no idea and lack motivation; . So that the students could not master in vocabulary. The purposes of this research was to know of how significant the correlation between intrinsic motivation and Students writing descriptive ability to Fifh semester of english students’ IAIN PadangsidimpuanThe population of this research was consisted of 78 students. Then, the sample of the research was 2 experimental classes, the first experimental class by intrinsic motivation (TBI-2), and the second as a control class by usingwriting descriptive ability(TBI-5). It was taken after conducting test. In collecting the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ intrisic motivation. To analysis tthe data, researcher used t test. To analyze data, the researcher used product moment formula. After analyzing data, the researcher found that mean score of variable X was 93,33 and mean score of Variaable Y 63,27. Besides, the score rxy was higher than rtable (0,304 ≤ 0,393 ). 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 intrinsic motivation and Students writing descriptive ability to Fifth semester of english students’ IAIN Padangsidimpuan in low category.

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