The Correlation Between Students’ Motivation and Their Achievement in Studying English (A Correlational Study at SMAN 1 Woyla)

ABSTRACT

Motivation is one of main important things for better achievement in studying English. The aims of this study are to find out students motivation in learning English, and to figure out the correlation between students’ motivation and their achievement in studying English at SMAN 1 Woyla. The writer collected the data from questionnaire and documentation and analyzed the data through percentage of questionnaire, and using pearson’s product moment coefficient of correlation SPSS 0.20. This study involved thirty one students of third grade senior high school of 1 Woyla. The writer took the sample by using random sampling. The findings in this research are; there are 11 (35,5%) students have high motivation, 20 (64,5%) students have very high motivation and no one students related to low and moderate category. The calculation result of students’ motivation is 64,09 which means the third grade students at SMAN 1 Woyla have very high motivation in learning English. The result of correlation between two variable or rxy is 0,719. So that rxy > rtable ; 0.719 > 0.355 which showed that the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. It means that there is a strong correlation between students' motivation and their achievement in studying English.