The Relationship between Students’ Motivation and Their Achievement in Studying the English Language

This thesis is entitled “The Relationship between Students’ Motivation and Their Achievement in Studying the English Language”. The purpose of this study was to know whether or not there is a relationship between students’ motivation and their achievement in studying at English education department of UIN Ar-Raniry. The sample of this research was unit 2 and 5 of English Education Department and selected purposively. To obtain the data, the researcher applied a questionnaire. The questionnaire was aimed at finding out the students’ motivation, both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Based on the questionnaire, most of students’ motivation was intrinsic motivation. After analyzing both variables x (students’ motivation) and y (students’ achievement) by Pearson Product Moment formula, it is found that r = 0.907. It indicates that the correlation in this study is in the very high. Finally, the writer concludes that there is a strong relationship between students’ motivation and their achievement in studying the English language.

Keyword; students’ motivation, intrinsic and extrinsic, achievement