The correlation of students’ motivation and students’ english achievement at grade VIII SMP Negeri 9 Padangsidimpuan

Nasution, Pike Khairani (2015) The correlation of students’ motivation and students’ english achievement at grade VIII SMP Negeri 9 Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is about students’ motivation and students’ English achievement. The formulation of the problem: Is there correlation of students’ motivation and students’ English achievement on grade VIII SMP Negeri 9 Padangsidimpuan? This research intended to know the students’ motivation and students’ English achievement at grade VIII SMP Negeri 9 Padangsidimpuan. The research was conducted by quantitative method. based on result of report and final semester on DKN some of is not enthusiastic in learning Language of English finally its value very ugly or get value low. This study the purpose to show whether there are correlation of students’ motivation and students’ English achievement in learning English. The objective of this study is to find out the correlation and solve the problem. It is a fact from questionnaire to students; they told that study English is very difficult. There are many factors that indicate the students’ English achievement such as: the speaking, reading, and writing low motivation, and unless interaction by using English with the teacher. This research was done by using quantitative research. The sum of population from this research 240 students grade VIII SMP Negeri 9 Padangsidimpuan from Propotional Random Sampling . The used samples in this research were 50 students of grade VIII SMP Negeri 9 Padangsidimpuan. To get the data the researcher used questionnaires and test, to find out the Correlation of Students’ Motivation and students’ English Achievement at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 9 Padangsidimpuan. Based on the result of the research, it was font the percentage of the Correlation of Students’ Motivation and students’ English Achievement at Grade VIII SMP Negeri 9 Padangsidimpuan was significant. Because the value of “r” calculated were 0.381, while the value of the r table in Pearson Product Moment formulated on the degree of freedom 5% significant was 0.284. It showed “r” calculation was higher than or 0.381 > 0.284. It has high correlation and it means that the hypothesis was accepted.

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