The correlation between students’ motivation and their English achievement at the first grade of SMPN 1 Gondang Tulungagung

Chotimah, Rita Nurul (2014) The correlation between students’ motivation and their English achievement at the first grade of SMPN 1 Gondang Tulungagung. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Key words: Teaching, Correlation, Motivation, and English Achievement Education is a significant aspect in our life because by conducting the education, the people know many things that make their life get better that previously. Sardiman (1992:4) states that “Education has a meaning as the efforts which are done by someone or a group of people in order to be adult people or get better life or higher life” It can be said that the education gives crucial contribution in making better life among the people around the world. From statement above, to get high quality of educations students should have motivation in learning. The study was conducted to answer the following research questions (1) How is the motivation of the first grade students at SMPN 1 Gondang Tulungagung? (2) How is the English achievement of the first grade students at SMPN 1 Gondang Tulungagung? (3) correlation Is there any correlation between students’ motivation and their English achievement of the first grade at SMPN 1 Gondang? The purposes of the study are: (1) To know the motivation of the first grade students at SMPN 01 Gondang. (2) To know the English achievement of the first grade students at SMPN 1 Gondang. (3) To find out the correlation between students’ motivation and their English achievement of the first grade students at SMPN 1 Gondang. Research design of this study is correlational research. The sample of the research are VII-M class and VII-N of SMPN 1 Gondang Tulungagung in academic year 2013/ 2014. VII-M is included 24 individuals and VII-N is included 24. All students at these classes are 48 individuals as members of the sample. The computation based on SPSS 16 goes to 0.963. Mean while according to the table of product moment value with N = 48 at the degree 5% of significance of correlation goes to 0.284 and the degree 1% of significance of correlation goes to 0.368. So it can be said that the value of statistical analysis 0.963 is greater than 0.284 and 0.963 is greater than 0.368. It means that the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. it can be said that there is positive correlation between students’ motivation and students’ achievement of the seventh year students at SMPN 1 Gondang in academic year 2013/2014. Based on the result, it can be conclude that students’ motivation gave effect in students’ achievement in English especially at seventh grade students of SMPN 1 Gondang Tulungagung. Furthermore, it is suggested to the students to built their motivation. The teacher also must be motiv the students.

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