Motivation and Its Relationship With Reading Achievement (A Survey at Junior High School No.6 Banda Aceh)

Extrinsic Motivation is a construct resulting in students’ behavior that is encouraged by external rewards. There are many factors that could affect reading comprehension achievement. One of them is reading motivation. Reading motivation and comprehension are two main aspects of creating successful readers. The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship of students’ motivation with their reading achievement. Ninety students were selected as the samples. The data were colected using MRQ questionnaires by Wigfeld Jhon and Guthrie (1996) and reading test which is adopted in English book by The ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia (2014). Pearson Product Moment were used to find out the correlation and influence between the two variables. The result showed that there was significant correlation between reading motivation and reading comprehension achievement with r= 0.652. It is meant that the relationship between reading motivation and reading achievement is high (93,48%). Additionally, female students (59%) had positive motivation than male students (41%).